Sala-Garrido, Ramon <br/><br/>
Environmental and Energy Efficiency Evaluation Based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) 

 - Basel, Switzerland  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2021 
 - 1 electronic resource (104 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> Efficiency and productivity assessment are essential to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of countries, services and processes. In the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in the environmental effects of economic activities, and the need to assess the environmental and energy efficiency has been internationally recognized. Energy and environmental efficiency assessments of decision-making units (DMUs), such as countries, utilities, processes and services are relevant and have strong implications for companies, regulators, stakeholders, policy makers, and customers. To improve both the decision-making process and the management of DMUs, fundamental and practical knowledge about energy and environmental efficiency and productivity is essential 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>books978-3-0365-0573-2 9783036505725 9783036505732 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-0365-0573-2  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Research & information: general
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>electricity consumption (EC) undesirable outputs model data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficient inefficient data envelopment analysis energy efficiency performance bootstrap water treatment composite indicator sustainability water utilities management multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) evaluation energy environment efficiency transport DEA TOPSIS transit-oriented development (TOD) transit efficiency smartcard data network slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis (NSBM DEA)