Performance-based environmental index weights: Are all metrics created equal?

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1043-1050

  Bellenger, Moriah J ^a   Herlihy, Alan T ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional distance function; Environmental index weights; Environmental performance

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INDEX METHOD; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SHADOW PRICING; STREAM;

EID: 77649250848     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.11.021     Document Type: Article

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