Addressing the multi-criteria group decision making problem with interval attribute values and attribute weights, this paper proposes a decision method based on attribute distribution information. The selection of green suppliers is taken as an example for decision analysis.
Creation of sustainable society and transition to low-carbon energy system are the main priorities of the EU policy. Energy poverty(EP) is one of the most important social problems linked to low-carbon transition as creation of carbon neutral societies requires to address other important sustainability issues linked with carbon-free future. Although assessment of EP is a prerequisite for designing policy initiatives to alleviate the problem.
This paper estimates the eco-efficiency, shadow price and margina abatement costsof dairy farms in Lithuania based on Farm Accounting Data Network (FADN) data from 2015, 2017, and 2019. The Slacks-Based Measure-Data Envelopment Analysis (SBM-DEA) model is applied for approximating the environmental production technology.
Green transformation at the beginning of the 21st century occupies the top positions in modern society’s sustainability transition research and policy debates due to its multiple propositions of various innovations, addressing the still unsolved issues of rapidly on-going societal and technological changes. Rooting from the general climate change concerns, recently, sustainability transformation has become a special focus in the EU, which is facing new and very concrete demands—to elucidate the evidence-based pathways towards the green transformation with European Green Deal and European Climate Law targets ahead.
In recent years, humanity has faced with multiple crises, both of economic and environmental nature. Among the key reasons for such turbulences, the deteriorating agri-environmental situation appears as an important facet. This article evaluates agri-environmental situation of selected European Union (EU) countries using the multi-criteria decision making methods (SAW, TOPSIS, and EDAS) to identify the potential strategies for improvement of agricultural activities and environmental situation in general.
Authors:dr. Virginia NamiotkoIERDdr. Irena KriščiukaitienėIERDdr. Aistė GalnaitytėIERDdr. Tomas BaležentisIERD
The paper investigated the patterns of changes in spatial price transmission between pigmeat prices of two post-communist Member States, namely Lithuania and Poland, and five main producing countries in the EU-15, namely Germany, Denmark, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. This study employed vector autoregression modelling, as well as the Granger causality concept, and focused on changes in price behavior from May 2004 to May 2021.
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This paper proposes a novel hybrid evaluation framework for analyzing the performance of public sector organizations. The suggested setting allows for performance evaluation based on a comprehensive approach involving expert knowledge. For this purpose, the research integrates the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) approach and fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods.
This paper links the Bounded-adjusted Measure (BAM) model to the managerial disposability model. The additive structure allows measuring inefficiency with regards to individual input/output variables and identifying whether a certain unit should follow the natural or managerial disposability to reduce the overall inefficiency. Using this BAM model, the environmentally-adjusted technical inefficiency of 30 province-level regions in China is measured during the period of 2006-2015.
This paper presents an index decomposition approach that allows explaining the changes in agricultural output from the perspective of theecological footprintand biological capacity. These measures represent the shift towards a more valuable output mix and lower environmental pressures. Economic and biological productivity is involved in the analysis.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) initiated by Chinese government could be regarded as a systematic framework for promoting economic cooperation and development among the countries along the Belt and Road and China. This paper attempts to analyze economic and environmental performance in 61 developing countries along Belt and Road.