Accounting and Statistical Analyses for Sustainable Development : Multiple Perspectives and Information-Theoretic Complexity Reduction |
Autore | Lemke Claudia |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Springer Nature, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
Collana | Sustainable Management, Wertschöpfung und Effizienz |
Soggetto topico | Environmental economics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Environmental Economics
Sustainability Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Composite indicators Multilevel perspective Principal component analysis Information theory Open Access |
ISBN | 3-658-33246-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of equations -- List of symbols -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background and motivation -- 1.2 Research question and aim of the dissertation -- 1.3 Procedure -- Chapter 2 Conceptual framework of sustainable development -- 2.1 Definition of sustainable development and sustainability -- 2.2 The three contentual domains of sustainable development -- 2.2.1 Environmental protection -- 2.2.2 Social development -- 2.2.3 Economic prosperity -- 2.2.4 Integration of the three contentual domains -- 2.3 Stakeholders and change agents of sustainable development -- 2.3.1 The multilevel perspective -- 2.3.2 Corporate sustainability -- 2.3.3 Political goal setting: The United Nations's (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- 2.3.4 Sustainability science -- 2.4 Summary -- Chapter 3 Measuring and assessing contributions to sustainable development -- 3.1 Principles of sustainable development measurement and assessment methods -- 3.2 Overview of quantitative sustainable development assessment methods -- 3.3 Sustainable development indicators -- 3.3.1 Corporate indicator frameworks -- 3.3.2 Meso-level indices -- 3.3.3 Macro-level indices -- 3.4 Summary -- Chapter 4 Methodology -- 4.1 Overview of sustainable development indices' calculation steps and methodological requirements -- 4.2 Methodological evaluation of sustainable development indices -- 4.3 Methodology of the Multilevel Sustainable Development Index (MLSDI) -- 4.3.1 Collection of sustainable development key figures -- 4.3.2 Preparation of sustainable development key figures -- 4.3.2.1 Meso-level transformation to macro-economic categories -- 4.3.2.2 Macro-level transformation of statistical classifications -- 4.3.3 Imputation of missing values.
4.3.3.1 Characterisation of missing values -- 4.3.3.2 Single time series imputation: Various methods depending on the missing data pattern -- 4.3.3.3 Multiple panel data imputation: Amelia II algorithm -- 4.3.3.4 Statistical tests of model assumptions -- 4.3.4 Standardisation to sustainable development key indicators -- 4.3.5 Outlier detection and treatment -- 4.3.5.1 Characterisation of outliers -- 4.3.5.2 Univariate Interquartile Range (IQR) method -- 4.3.6 Scaling -- 4.3.6.1 Characterisation of scales -- 4.3.6.2 Rescaling between ten and 100 -- 4.3.7 Weighting -- 4.3.7.1 Overview of weighting methods -- 4.3.7.2 Multivariate statistical analysis: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) -- 4.3.7.3 Multivariate statistical analysis: Partial Triadic Analysis (PTA) -- 4.3.7.4 Information theory: Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy Backward (MRMRB) algorithm -- 4.3.7.5 Statistical tests of model assumptions -- 4.3.8 Aggregation -- 4.3.9 Sensitivity analyses -- 4.4 Summary and interim conclusion -- Chapter 5 Empirical findings -- 5.1 Data base, objects of investigation, and time periods -- 5.2 Sustainable development key figures -- 5.2.1 Collection and preparation of sustainable development key figures -- 5.2.2 Imputation of missing values -- 5.3 Sustainable development key indicators -- 5.3.1 Alignment of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) disclosures -- 5.3.1.1 Environmental sustainable development key indicators -- 5.3.1.2 Social sustainable development key indicators -- 5.3.1.3 Economic sustainable development key indicators -- 5.3.2 Summary statistics of the sustainable development growth indicators -- 5.3.3 Outlier detection and treatment -- 5.3.4 Empirical findings of the cleaned and rescaled sustainable development key indicators -- 5.3.4.1 Summary statistics. 5.3.4.2 Comparative analysis of the selected branches -- 5.4 Weighting -- 5.4.1 The Principal Component (PC) family's eigenvalues and explained cumulative variances -- 5.4.2 The Maximum Relevance Minimum Redundancy Backward (MRMRB) algorithm's discretisation and backward elimination -- 5.4.3 Comparative analysis of weights -- 5.4.4 Statistical tests of the Principal Component (PC) family -- 5.5 Empirical findings of the four composite sustainable development measures -- 5.5.1 Summary statistics -- 5.5.2 Comparative analysis of the selected branches -- 5.6 Sensitivity analyses -- 5.7 Summary -- Chapter 6 Discussion and conclusion -- 6.1 Implications for research -- 6.2 Implications for practice -- 6.3 Limitations and future outlook -- 6.4 Summary and conclusion -- Appendix -- A.1 Statistical classification scheme of economic activities in the European Union (EU) -- A.2 German health economy's statistical delimitation -- A.3 Statistical tests of sustainable development key figures -- A.4 Summary statistics of the sustainable development key indicators -- A.5 Outlier thresholds of the sustainable development key indicators -- A.6 Normality tests of z-score scaled sustainable development key indicators -- A.7 Sensitivities by the four composite sustainable development measures -- References. |
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Springer Nature, 2021 | ||
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Accounting for the environment : more talk and little progress / / edited by Martin Freedman, Bikki Jaggi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.408 |
Collana | Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management |
Soggetto topico |
Environmental auditing
Environmental reporting Environmental economics Environmental protection - Management Social responsibility of business |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-78190-304-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Accounting for the Environment: More Talk and Little Progress; Copyright page; Contents; Editors; List of Contributors; List of AD HOC Reviewers; Editors' Introduction; An Examination of the Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: The Case of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises; Introduction; Related Research and Hypotheses Development; Definition of CSR Activities; Measures of CSR; Chinese CSR Blue Book; Institutional Considerations for Chinese SOEs; Hypotheses Development; Measures of CFP; Data and Methodology; Sample Selection
Model SpecificationEmpirical Results and Analysis; Descriptive Statistics; Correlation Matrix; Regression Analysis - Hypothesis 1; Regression Analysis - Hypotheses 2 through 5; Discussion and Conclusions; Discussion; Conclusions; References; Towards a More Comprehensive Framework for Sustainability Control Systems Research; Introduction; Sustainability and Management Control: An Overview of the Literature; Towards a More Comprehensive Framework for SCS Research: The 'SCS Package'; Concluding Comments and Directions for Future Research; Notes; References Measuring Environmental Performance: Is Newsweek's Green Ranking the Solution?Measuring Pollution Performance: Is Newsweek's Green Ranking the Solution?; Background; History of Pollution Performance Measures; Prior Literature Using Pollution Performance Measures; Risk-Based TRI; Newsweek's Methodology; Hypothesis and Methodology; Sample; Hypothesis; Models to Test; Results; Descriptive Analysis; Correlations; OLS Regression Analysis with Full Sample; OLS Regression Analysis with Subsamples; Conclusions; Notes; References; Corporate Governance and Environmental Activity; Introduction Literature Review and Hypothesis DevelopmentA Socio-Political Theoretical Base; Benefits of Meeting Corporate Social Responsibilities; Benefits of Meeting Environmental Responsibilities; Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibilities; Corporate Governance and Environmental Responsibilities; Research Design and Variable Description; Measurement of the Primary Independent Variable - Corporate Governance; Measurement of the Primary Dependent Variable - Environmental Performance; Empirical Specification; Sample Selection and Descriptive Statistics; Results Additional Supplemental TestsConclusion; Notes; References; SEC Guidance on Climate Change Risk Disclosures: An Assessment of Firm and Market Responses; Introduction; Background and Hypothesis Development; Methods; Sample; Disclosure; Market Reaction; Results; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix: Climate Change Risk Disclosure Metric |
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Accounting for the environment [[electronic resource] ] : more talk and little progress / / edited by Martin Freedman, Bikki Jaggi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.408 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
FreedmanMartin
JaggiBikki |
Collana | Advances in environmental accounting & management |
Soggetto topico |
Business & Economics - Accounting - General
Public finance accounting Accounting Environmental auditing Environmental reporting Environmental protection - Management Environmental economics Social responsibility of business |
ISBN | 1-78190-304-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | An examination of the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance : the case of Chinese state-owned enterprises / Robert W. Rutledge ... [et al.] -- Towards a more comprehensive framework for sustainability control systems research / Angelo Ditillo, Irene Eleonora Lisi -- Measuring environmental performance : is Newsweek's green ranking the solution? / Yu Cong, Martin Freedman, Jin Dong Park -- Corporate governance and environmental activity / Martin Stuebs, Jr., Li Sun -- SEC guidance on climate change risk disclosures : an assessment of firm and market responses / Joan DiSalvio, Nina T. Dorata. |
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Accounting for the environment : more talk and little progress / / edited by Martin Freedman, Bikki Jaggi |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
Disciplina | 658.408 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
FreedmanMartin
JaggiBikki |
Collana | Advances in environmental accounting & management |
Soggetto topico |
Business & Economics - Accounting - General
Public finance accounting Accounting Environmental auditing Environmental reporting Environmental protection - Management Environmental economics Social responsibility of business |
ISBN | 1-78190-304-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | An examination of the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance : the case of Chinese state-owned enterprises / Robert W. Rutledge ... [et al.] -- Towards a more comprehensive framework for sustainability control systems research / Angelo Ditillo, Irene Eleonora Lisi -- Measuring environmental performance : is Newsweek's green ranking the solution? / Yu Cong, Martin Freedman, Jin Dong Park -- Corporate governance and environmental activity / Martin Stuebs, Jr., Li Sun -- SEC guidance on climate change risk disclosures : an assessment of firm and market responses / Joan DiSalvio, Nina T. Dorata. |
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Adapting to Climate Change : An Assessment of Vulnerability and Risks to Human Security in the Western Mediterranean Basin / / by Dania Abdul Malak, Katriona McGlade, Diana Pascual, Eduard Pla |
Autore | Abdul Malak Dania |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIX, 100 p. 11 illus., 9 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 577.27 |
Collana | SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science |
Soggetto topico |
Climate change
Environmental economics Climate Change Climate Change Management and Policy Environmental Economics |
ISBN | 3-319-51680-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2.The Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean -- 3.Impact Assessment -- 4. Policy Assessment -- 5.Vulnerability Assessment -- 6.Conclusions and Recommendations. |
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Adopting Circular Economy Current Practices and Future Perspectives / / Idiano D'Adamo |
Autore | Basel Idiano |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (160 pages) |
Disciplina | 338.927 |
Soggetto topico | Environmental economics |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | About the Special Issue Editor vii -- Idiano D'Adamo Adopting a Circular Economy: Current Practices and Future Perspectives Reprinted from: Soc. Sci. 2019, 8, 328, doi:10.3390/socsci8120328 1 -- Idiano D'Adamo The Profitability of Residential Photovoltaic Systems. A New Scheme of Subsidies Based on the Price of CO2 in a Developed PV Market Reprinted from: Soc. Sci. 2018, 7, 148, doi:10.3390/socsci7090148 7 -- Mihail Busu Adopting Circular Economy at the European Union Level and Its Impact on Economic Growth Reprinted from: Soc. Sci. 2019, 8, 159, doi:10.3390/socsci8050159 29 -- Erika Urb ´ankov ´a The Development of the Health and Social Care Sector in the Regions of the Czech Republic in Comparison with other EU Countries Reprinted from: Soc. Sci. 2019, 8, 170, doi:10.3390/socsci8060170 41 -- Giulia Caruso and Stefano Antonio Gattone Waste Management Analysis in Developing Countries through Unsupervised Classification of Mixed Data Reprinted from: Soc. Sci. 2019, 8, 186, doi:10.3390/socsci8060186 59 -- Pasquale Marcello Falcone Tourism-Based Circular Economy in Salento (South Italy): A SWOT-ANP Analysis Reprinted from: Soc. Sci. 2019, 8, 216, doi:10.3390/socsci8070216 75 -- Fernando E. Garcia-Mui ˜na, Roc´ıo Gonz´alez-S´anchez, Anna Maria Ferrari, Lucrezia Volpi, Martina Pini, Cristina Siligardi and Davide Settembre-Blundo Identifying the Equilibrium Point between Sustainability Goals and Circular Economy Practices in an Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Context Using Eco-Design Reprinted from: Soc. Sci. 2019, 8, 241, doi:10.3390/socsci8080241 91 -- Serdar T ¨urkeli and Martine Schophuizen Decomposing the Complexity of Value: Integration of Digital Transformation of Education with Circular Economy Transition Reprinted from: Soc. Sci. 2019, 8, 243, doi:10.3390/socsci8080243 113 -- Mar´ıa D. De-Juan-Vigaray and Ana I. Espinosa Segu´ı Retailing, Consumers, and Territory: Trends of an Incipient Circular Model Reprinted from: Soc. Sci. 2019, 8, 300, doi:10.3390/socsci8110300 135. |
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Advanced Mathematical Methods for Economic Efficiency Analysis : Theory and Empirical Applications / / edited by Pedro Macedo, Victor Moutinho, Mara Madaleno |
Autore | Macedo Pedro |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 pages) |
Disciplina | 330.0151 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MoutinhoVictor
MadalenoMara |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems |
Soggetto topico |
Econometrics
Social sciences - Mathematics Power resources Environmental economics Quantitative Economics Mathematics in Business, Economics and Finance Resource and Environmental Economics |
ISBN | 3-031-29583-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 2. Production Economics and Economic Efficiency (Mónica Meireles) -- Chapter 3. Data Envelopment Analysis: A Review and Synthesis (Ana S. Camanho) -- Chapter 4. Stochastic Frontier Analysis: A Review and Synthesis (Mara Madaleno) -- Part II -- Chapter 5. Combining Directional Distances and ELECTRE Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Preferable Assessments of Efficiency (Thyago Nepomuceno) -- Chapter 6. Benefit-of-the-Doubt Composite Indicators and use of Weight Restrictions (Ana S. Camanho) -- Chapter 7. Multidirectional Dynamic Inefficiency Analysis: An Extension to Include Corporate Social Responsibility (Magdalena Kapelko) -- Chapter 8. Stochastic DEA (Samah Jradi) -- Chapter 9. Internal Benchmarking for Efficiency Evaluations using Data Envelopment Analysis: A Review of Applications and Directions for Future Research (Fabio Sartori Piran) -- Part III -- Chapter 10. Recent Advances in the Construction of Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Models (Christopher F. Parmeter) -- Chapter 11. A Hierarchical Panel Data Model for the Estimation of Stochastic Metafrontiers: Computational Issues and an Empirical Application (Christine Amsler) -- Chapter 12. Robustness in Stochastic Frontier Analysis (Alexander D. Stead) -- Chapter 13. Is it MOLS or COLS? (Christopher F. Parmeter) -- Chapter 14. Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Maximum Entropy Estimation (Pedro Macedo). |
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Advances in Carbon Dioxide Compression and Pipeline Transportation Processes / / by Andrzej Witkowski, Andrzej Rusin, Mirosław Majkut, Sebastian Rulik, Katarzyna Stolecka |
Autore | Witkowski Andrzej |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (141 p.) |
Disciplina | 621.51 |
Collana | SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology |
Soggetto topico |
Energy systems
Environmental economics Energy Systems Environmental Economics |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | General Introduction -- General Physical Properties of CO2 in Compression and Transportation Processes -- Compression and Pumping Technology Options -- Reference Options of the CO2 Compression Processes Available for Technological Concepts of a 900 MW Pulverized Coal-Fired Power Plant -- The Use of Waste Heat from the CO2 Compression Process -- Analysis of Transportation Systems for CO2 Sequestration -- Analysis of risk related to carbon dioxide pipeline transport. |
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Advances in Energy Resources and Environmental Engineering / / edited by Abdelfatah Abomohra, Razif Harun, Jia Wen |
Autore | Abomohra Abdelfatah |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1733 pages) |
Disciplina | 333.794 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HarunRazif
WenJia |
Collana | Environmental Science and Engineering |
Soggetto topico |
Environment
Environmental engineering Civil engineering Sustainability Power resources Environmental economics Environmental Sciences Environmental Civil Engineering Natural Resource and Energy Economics Resource and Environmental Economics |
ISBN | 3-031-42563-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Environmental Science -- Exploration of Resources and Environmental Protection -- Energy Economics and Management. |
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Advances in Remote Sensing for Global Forest Monitoring |
Autore | Tomppo Erkki |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (352 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Research & information: general
Environmental economics |
Soggetto non controllato |
forest structure change
EBLUP small area estimation multitemporal LiDAR and stand-level estimates forest cover Sentinel-1 Sentinel-2 data fusion machine-learning Germany South Africa temperate forest savanna classification Sentinel 2 land use land cover improved k-NN logistic regression random forest support vector machine statistical estimator IPCC good practice guidelines activity data emissions factor removals factor Picea crassifolia Kom compatible equation nonlinear seemingly unrelated regression error-in-variable modeling leave-one-out cross-validation digital surface model digital terrain model canopy height model constrained neighbor interpolation ordinary neighbor interpolation point cloud density stereo imagery remotely sensed LAI field measured LAI validation magnitude uncertainty temporal dynamics state space models forest disturbance mapping near real-time monitoring CUSUM NRT monitoring deforestation degradation tropical forest tropical peat forest type deep learning FCN8s CRFasRNN GF2 dual-FCN8s random forests error propagation bootstrapping Landsat LiDAR La Rioja forest area change data assessment uncertainty evaluation inconsistency forest monitoring drought time series satellite data Bowen ratio carbon flux boreal forest windstorm damage synthetic aperture radar C-band genetic algorithm multinomial logistic regression |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557338103321 |
Tomppo Erkki | ||
Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 | ||
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