Ecological efficiency based ranking of cities: A combined dea cross-efficiency and Shannon's entropy method

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Lo Storto, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cities; Cross efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Ecological efficiency; Italy; Ranking; Shannon's entropy

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CAPITAL CITY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHOD; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POPULATION SIZE; RANKING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ITALY;

EID: 84960346197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8020124     Document Type: Article

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