Assessing agricultural eco-efficiency in Italian Regions

Sustainable Agricultural Development – Concepts, Principles, Eco-efficiency, Eco-equity, Eco-conditioning

* E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Starting with the reform of 1999 (named Agenda 2000), the Common Agricultural Policy has two main directions: market policy and sustainable development of rural zones. Since 2003, the environmental aspects were better integrated into the agricultural policy that included new measures or improvements of the existing ones, in order to promote the environment p...

A methodology for assessing eco-efficiency in logistics networks

Recent literature on sustainable logistics networks points to two important questions: (i) How to spot the preferred solution(s) balancing environmental and business concerns? (ii) How to improve the understanding of the trade-offs between these two dimensions? We posit that a visual exploration of the efficient frontier and trade-offs between profitability and environmental impacts are particu...

Eco-Efficiency of Regions: Toward Reducing Total Material Input

The concept of eco-efficiency is here presented as a valuable contribution to a sustainable regional development in the European Union. Eco-efficiency and dematerialization strategies are more and more established at the business level where practical and easily understandable methods and management tools have been developed and applied in the past years and decades. On this (micro) level, case...

Testing for Environmental Kuznets Curve in the EU Agricultural Sector through an Eco-(in)Efficiency Index

Studies on agricultural production practices advance within international literature and new methods are proposed in order to assess the agricultural sustainability, either at farm or macro level. The present paper builds on these advancements and develops a synthetic Eco-(in)efficiency index by employing a directional distance function—data envelopment analysis (DEA) model. This index is used ...

Eco-Efficiency in Corporate Budgeting