Benchmarking countries' environmental performance

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 426-438

  Zanella, A ^a   Camanho, A S ^a   Dias, T G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Cluster analysis; Data envelopment analysis; Decision trees; Environmental performance

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION TREES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDICES; ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WEIGHT RESTRICTION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84873932783     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2012.62     Document Type: Article

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