Incorporating the carbon footprint to measure industry context and energy consumption effect on environmental performance of business operations

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 359-371

  Chang, Dong Shang ^a   Yeh, Li Ting ^b,c   Liu, Wenrong ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbon disclosure project; Carbon footprint; Data envelopment analysis; Environmental management; Environmental performance; Undesirable output

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

BUSINESS OPERATION; CARBON DISCLOSURE PROJECT; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS MODELS; ENERGY STRUCTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRY CONTEXTS; MATERIALS INDUSTRY; UNDESIRABLE OUTPUT;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

EID: 84957875956     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-014-0785-9     Document Type: Article

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