Measuring biodiversity performance: A conditional efficiency measurement approach

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1866-1873

  Halkos, George Emm ^a   Tzeremes, Nickolaos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bootstrap techniques; Conditional DEA; Convexity test; Kernel density estimation

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP TECHNIQUE; CONDITIONAL DEA; CONVEXITY TEST; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EFFICIENCY LEVELS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INCOME INEQUALITY; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; PER CAPITA; POPULATION LEVELS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTIMATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BOOTSTRAPPING; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT;

EID: 84755160695     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.04.014     Document Type: Article

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