A proposal for a Composite Index of Environmental Performance (CIEP) for countries

García‐Sánchez, Isabel‐María; Almeida, Thiago Alexandre das Neves; Câmara, Renata Paes de Barros

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.08.004

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“…Aggregated indicators represent important tools for the communication of scientific and technical information, because they can facilitate access to it by different groups of users, allowing the transformation of information into action. In this way, composite indicators, in addition to being useful for assessing situations or decisions, can also play an active role in improving formulation processes, most commonly in terms of policy development and planning by authorities, but also in the the design of projects and strategies by the managers (García‐Sánchez, Almeida, & Camara, ). In this vein, we propose our Hypothesis H2:Hypothesis The ICRPI allows us to observe the variation of CSR compromises and practices explained by the nexus of institutions that determine the industry identity of firms.…”

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Useful information for stakeholder engagement: A multivariate proposal of an Industrial Corporate Social Responsibility Practices Index

Amor‐Esteban

Galindo-Villardón

García‐Sánchez

2018

Sustainable Development

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The aim of this paper is to create an industrial corporate social responsibility practices index (ICSRPI) that allows us to determine the level of sustainable business commitment in the main industries. The ICSRPI allows simplification and quantification of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices; identification of those industries which present greater deficiencies in sustainability systems to facilitate the planning of various improvement actions; and provision of pertinent information on environmental and social issues to guide stakeholders in their decision‐making processes. In this sense, empirically, the ICSRPI reveals that companies from more polluting sectors, such as oil and gas, chemical, paper or mining, are perceived as having high environmental risk and are the leaders in sustainable development. Companies from less polluting sectors, such as the media or financial services, have lower CSR scores; however, they present high values in social issues, giving higher priority to business ethics and the rights of employees.

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Section: Theoretical Background and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Useful information for stakeholder engagement: A multivariate proposal of an Industrial Corporate Social Responsibility Practices Index

Amor‐Esteban

Galindo-Villardón

García‐Sánchez

2018

Sustainable Development

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“…Pascal et al (2013) examined the impact of urban air pollution on public health in 25 European cities and found that European citizens are still exposed to air pollution concentrations that surpass the WHO limits. García-Sánchez et al (2015) concluded that developed countries compared to developing countries have a better environmental policy, as the population density and growth become the driving forces to mitigating environmental hazards in these countries. Haseeb and Azam (2015) established that green and renewable energy is one of the factors that lessen the effects of carbon emissions in the environment.…”

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The battle of health with environmental evils of Asian countries: promises to keep

Qureshi

Khan

Rasli

et al. 2015

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between environmental indicators and health expenditures in the panel of five selected Asian countries, over the period of 2000-2013. The study used panel cointegration technique for evaluating the nexus between environment and health in the region. The results show that energy demand, forest area, and GDP per unit use of energy have a significant and positive impact on increasing health expenditures in the region. These results have been confirmed by single equation panel cointegration estimators, i.e., fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS), dynamic OLS (DOLS), and canonical cointegrating regression (CCR) estimators. In addition, the study used robust least squares regression to confirm the generalizability of the results in Asian context. All these estimators indicate that environmental indicators escalate the health expenditures per capita in a region; therefore, Asian countries should have to upsurge health expenditures for safeguard from environmental evils in a region.

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“…An important aspect of this process is the measurement of the environmental impacts caused by human actions and businesses and their effects on the health of citizen (García-Sánchez et al 2015). In this sense, more complete and reliable environmental information must be based on indicators that enable us to understand the current situation and its evolution and can be used in decision-making processes (Clerici et al 2004).…”

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A Standardized Procedure for a Pre-evaluation of the IED Instance

Panepinto

Ruffino

Zanetti

et al. 2016

Environmental Management

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This study presents a procedure, called EICS (Enterprise IPPC Compatibility Study) aimed at evaluating, by means of the calculation of three indexes, the compliance of the processes performed in an industrial plant with the guidelines provided by BREFs (BAT References) Documents. In fact, according to European Directive 2010/75/EU (concerning the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control and repealing European Directive 2008/01/EC), industrial plants must require authorizations to the competent authority stating the conformity of their activity, in order to obtain this conformity they are advised to Best Available Technologies (BAT). The aim of the BATs is to avoid or minimize the impact of an industrial activity on the environment through the prevention of the atmospheric emissions, wastewater discharge and energetic consumption, and the correct waste management thus improving the efficiency of the plant. The procedure shown in the present paper has been tested on several types of industrial plant (cement plants, secondary smelt foundries, paper-mill, and automotive industries as regards their paint lines). In this paper, the application of EICS method to a cement plant is presented: the obtained results highlight a good correlation between the index values and the real situation of the plant.

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A proposal for a Composite Index of Environmental Performance (CIEP) for countries

Cited by 59 publications

References 12 publications

Useful information for stakeholder engagement: A multivariate proposal of an Industrial Corporate Social Responsibility Practices Index

Useful information for stakeholder engagement: A multivariate proposal of an Industrial Corporate Social Responsibility Practices Index

The battle of health with environmental evils of Asian countries: promises to keep

A Standardized Procedure for a Pre-evaluation of the IED Instance

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