Environmental benchmarking for management of energy and water use: A study of SMEs in the Mediterranean region

Environmental Quality Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 31-44

  Makrinou, Aikaterini ^a   Mandaraka, Maria ^a   Assimakopoulos, Dionyssis ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Environmental and Energy Management Research Unit

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENERGY RESOURCE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 41449117609     PISSN: 10881913     EISSN: 15206483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tqem.20174     Document Type: Review

References (3)

1. Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Turkey, Malta, and Cyprus.
2. The objective of MEPI (which was funded by the European Commission) was to develop a framework for standardized environmental performance indicators that could be applied across firms in all sectors. This framework aimed to give a reliable, complete, transparent, and verifiable measure of a firm's environmental performance.
3. In addition to the nine countries mentioned previously, SMITE methodology and tools were also applied to the hotel sector in Greece during the same period. Data obtained from Greek enterprises are included in the results presented here.