Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DECISION MAKING
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 1005-1021Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622014400021
Keywords
Environmental performance; data envelopment analysis; undesirable outputs; Slacks-based measure; nonoriented
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Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has recently gained great popularity in modeling environmental performance because it provides condensed information to decision makers when the production process includes undesirable outputs. In this paper, we develop a new slacks-based efficiency measurement for modeling environmental performance using the environmental DEA technology. The proposed index has more theoretical justification, and distinguishes among different decision making units (DMUs) better in practice. Then we further extend it to the nonoriented index with double aim of increasing desirable outputs and reducing undesirable outputs. Finally, we calculate the index for each of 25 OECD European countries in a model of CO2 emission performance from 2007 to 2009 and the results obtained are presented.
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