Evaluating the environmental performance of a university

Estimating the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of Australian ambulance services

“…This is a common limitation of top-down estimates of carbon footprints and structural path analyses using aggregate sectoral IeO multipliers (Baboulet and Lenzen, 2010;Lenzen et al, 2004;Su et al, 2010). This analysis further highlights how the problem might be even more pronounced for activities that organisationally fit within one economic sector, but that are operationally more similar to activities in other economic sectors.…”

Sustainability of the Biorefinery Industry for Fuel Production

“…One method that can be used to examine the environmental and economic performance of the different economic activities of a country or region is the Structural Path Analysis [44][45][46][47]. This methodology uses as database the input-output tables, which are published by the Brazilian Statistical Institute, to obtain the core of this analysis, the technical coefficient matrix A.…”

“…On the other hand, the main disadvantage is the high aggregation level of the database, and in many cases, the age of the data used. More description about SPA is found in the literature [44][45][46][47]. SPA computes the economic and/or environmental performance of a given economic sector by detailing the complete supply chains, known in the SPA literature as input paths, using a cradle-to-gate perspective.…”

“…An SPA computes the economic and/or environmental performance of a given production sector via detailing the complete supply chain using a cradle-to-gate perspective, including the identification, quantification and rank of the input paths that make the greatest contribution to the performance of a given sector [45,50,51].…”

Propuesta de un Instrumento de Autoevaluación del Desempeño Organizacional en Instituciones Públicas de Educación Superior en México

“…De igual manera, la investigación, vista como la capacidad de las universidades para generar nuevos conocimientos, se ha propuesto como indicador para evaluar su desempeño mediante rankings que clasifican universidades en función de su producción científica (Capaldi et al, 2010;Shin, 2009); bajo este enfoque, Aghion et al, (2010) analizan la influencia de la autonomía universitaria y el ambiente de competencia que enfrentan las instituciones en su desempeño en investigación. Aunado a lo anterior, y de acuerdo con el contexto actual de competencia y exigencia social, las universidades deben tener viabilidad financiera (Guthrie y Neumann, 2007;Xing, 2009) y sustentabilidad ambiental (Baboulet y Lenzen, 2010). De esta forma, se puede apreciar que el desempeño organizacional en las universidades resulta un concepto multidimensional y de difícil medición.…”