Data envelopment analysis of sustainability indicators of european agricultural systems at regional level

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 78-90

  Gerdessen, Johanna C ^a   Pascucci, Stefano ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Efficiency analysis; European agricultural systems; Partition; Scenarios; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN UNION; HETEROGENEITY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84876343670     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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