Towards a new index for environmental sustainability based on a DALY weighting approach
dc.contributor.author | Blanc, Isabelle | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Friot, Damien | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Margni, Manuele | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Jolliet, Olivier | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-10-01T15:24:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-08-12T18:32:18Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2008-07 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Blanc, Isabelle; Friot, Damien; Margni, Manuele; Jolliet, Olivier (2008). "Towards a new index for environmental sustainability based on a DALY weighting approach." Sustainable Development 16(4): 251-260. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60990> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0968-0802 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1099-1719 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60990 | |
dc.description.abstract | Composite indicators are synthetic indices that are used to rank country performances in specific policy areas. Many do, however, suffer from methodological difficulties. Specific difficulties linked to indices for environmental sustainability are analyzed through the illustration of several sets. The most critical issues are linked with a poor analytical framework and a lack of common unit for the aggregation. Some measure directly the state of the environment while other use proxies such as pressure or response indicators or even a mix of these. A new composite index for environmental sustainability was developed in the EU project EPSILON, which aimed at assessing European regional sustainability for policy decision making related to the improvement of regional sustainability. Indicators are expressed according to a coherent framework issuing from the ‘driving force–pressure–state–impact–response’ approach with an innovative weighting scheme derived from human health impact assessment based on disability adjusted life years (DALYs). Results are compared with a more conventional aggregation technique based on an equal weighting coupled to various normalization techniques. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Earth and Environmental Science | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Environmental Science & Management | en_US |
dc.title | Towards a new index for environmental sustainability based on a DALY weighting approach | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Education | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information and Library Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Natural Resources and Environment | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Sciences (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Urban Planning | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique FÉdÉrale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland ; Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique FÉdÉrale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland ; MINES ParisTech, Center for Energy and Processes, Sophia-Antipolis, France ; Ecole des Mines de Paris, Process and Energy Center, BP 207, F-06904 Sophia-Antipolis, France | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique FÉdÉrale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland ; MINES ParisTech, Center for Energy and Processes, Sophia-Antipolis, France | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique FÉdÉrale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland ; CIRAIG, Ecole Polytechnique de MontrÉal, Canada | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60990/1/376_ftp.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sd.376 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Sustainable Development | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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