Sustainability Appraisal: Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Techniques for Environmental Performance Evaluation

This book presents quantitative methods and techniques for the evaluation of the sustainability of business operations and an organization's overall environmental performance.

One of the most important issues in developing sustainable management strategies and incorporating ecodesigns in production, manufacturing and operations management is the assessment of the sustainability of business operations and organizations' overall environmental performance. The book presents the results of recent studies on sustainability assessment. It provides a solid reference for researchers in academia and industrial practitioners on the state-of-the-art in sustainability appraisal including the development and application of sustainability indices, quantitative methods, models and frameworks for the evaluation of current and future welfare outcomes, recommendations on data collection and processing for the evaluation of organizations' environmental performance, and eco-efficiency approaches leading to business process re-engineering.

The book will present original research papers on the quantitative methods and techniques for the evaluation of the sustainability of business operations and organizations' overall environmental performance The book contributions will describe modern methods and approaches applicable to the multi-faceted problem of sustainability appraisal and will help to fulfil generic frameworks presented in the literature with the specific quantitative techniques so needed in practice The scope of the book is interdisciplinary in nature, making it of interest to environmental researchers, business managers and process analysts, information management professionals and environmental decision makers, who will find valuable sources of information for their work-related activities Each chapter will provide sufficient background information, a description of problems, and results, making the book useful for a wider audience Additional software support is not required Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Sustainability indicators: development and application.- Formal methods for organization's environmental performance evaluation.- Sustainable resource management.- Environmental monitoring for sustainability assessment.- Quantitative methods and models for environmental assessment.- Eco-efficiency and business opportunities for sustainable performance.- Environmental-economic accounting.