International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

IJERPH


Economic Policy Economics Environmental Sciences





Dear Colleagues,





This Special Issue focuses on measuring environmental efficiency (or eco-efficiency) and identifying its determinants. Environmental efficiency is a mainly management concept and refers to the extent to which the producer creates more goods and/or services with less negative impact on the environment (e.g., air, water, waste, and soil). Environmentally efficient companies/countries aim to use less water, material, and energy and produce

fewer pollutants while trying to achieve certain production levels. Commonly used methods for measuring environmental efficiency include (but are not limited to) variations of data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions related to the measurement of environmental efficiency.





Specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following:





* Good–bad output production models

* Eco-efficiency/environmental efficiency related to air, water, waste, soil, etc.

* Determinants of environmental efficiency

* Costs of environmental inefficiency