Download or read book Index of Leading Environmental Indicators 2008 written by Steven F. Hayward and published by Pacific Research Inst for Public. This book was released on 2008 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book An Overview of Environmental Indicators written by J. A. Bakkes and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Index of Leading Environmental Indicators 2007 written by Steven F. Hayward and published by Pacific Research Inst for Public. This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Indicators of Environmental Quality written by William A. Thomas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers and agencies collect reams of objective data and authors publish volumes of subjective prose in attempts to explain what is meant by environmental quality. Still, we have no universally recognized methods for combining our quantitative measures with our qualitative concepts of environ ment. Not all of our environmental goals should be reduced to mere numbers, but many of them can be; and without these quantitative terms, we have no way of defining our present position nor of selecting positions we wish to attain on any logically established scale of environmen tal values. Stated simply, in our zeal to measure our environment we often forget that masses of numbers describing a system are insufficient to understand it or to be used in selecting goals and priorities for expending our economic and human resources. Attempts at quantitatively describing environmental quality, rather than merely measuring different environmental variables, are relatively recent. This condensing of data into the optimum number of terms with maximum information content is a truly interdisciplinary challenge. When Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiated its Environmental Program in early 1970 under a grant from the National Science Foundation, the usefulness of environmental indicators in assessing the effects of technology was included as one of the initial areas for investigation. James L. Liverman, through his encouragement and firm belief that these indicators are indispensable if we are to resolve our complex environmental problems, deserves much of the credit for the publication of this book.

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Download or read book Sensitivity Analysis of the 2008 Environmental Performance Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the robustness of the 2008EPI results requires the evaluation of uncertainties underlying the index and the sensitivity of the country scores and rankings to the methodological choices made during the development of the Index. To test this robustness, the EPI team has continued its partnership with the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy. This JRC report shows that the 2008 EPI has an architecture that highlights the complexity of translating environmental stewardship into straightforward, clear-cut policy recipes. The trade-offs within the index dimensions are a reminder of the danger of compensability between dimensions while identifying the areas where more work is needed to achieve a coherent framework in particular in terms of the relative importance of the indicators that compose the EPI framework. The 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is developed for 149 countries and is based on 25 indicators in six policy categories: Environmental Health, Air Pollution, Water, Biodiversity and Habitat, Productive Natural Resources, Climate Change. The EPI aims to bring a data-driven, fact-based and empirical approach to environmental protection and global sustainability. The validity of the EPI scoring and respective ranking is assessed by evaluating how sensitive the country ranks are to the assumptions made on the index structure and the aggregation of the 25 underlying indicators. The assumptions tested are: - measurement error of the raw data, - choice of capping at selected targets for the 25 indicators, - choice to correct for skewed distributions in the indicators values, - weights of the indicators and/or of the subcomponents of the index, and finally - aggregation function at the policy level (six policy categories).

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