What progress have we made since Rio? Results from the 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and Pilot Trend EPI

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 171-185

  Hsu, Angel ^a   Lloyd, Ainsley ^b   Emerson, John W ^b  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental indicators; Environmental Performance Index; Environmental performance measurement; Governance; Millennium Development Goal 7; Rio Earth Summit; Time series data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FISHERY; FORESTRY; HABITAT; HUMAN; INCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84880272244     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2013.05.011     Document Type: Article

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