Environmentally extended input-output (EEIO) databases are increasingly used to examine environmental footprints of economic activities. Studies focusing on China have independently, repeatedly developed EEIO databases for China. These databases are usually not publicly available, leading to repeated efforts, inconsistent with one another using different approaches, of limited environmental acc...

BACKGROUND Physical activity is important for healthy ageing, and daily walking is seen as a feasible way to be active at older ages. Yet, many older persons, particularly in lower socioeconomic groups and residing in deprived neighbourhoods, are insufficiently active. Creating a physical and social neighbourhood environment that is more supportive for walking has the potential to improve walki...

In recent years, the assessment of environmental performance has been received considerable attention by environmental policy indicators and decision makers. In this regard, this paper applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) as a management tool for evaluating the environmental performance of the firms and uses the extended bounded adjusted measure (extended BAM) for including undesirable outpu...

With growing calls for changes in the field of risk assessment, improved systematic approaches for addressing environmental issues with greater transparency and stakeholder engagement are needed to ensure sustainable trade-offs. Here we describe the comprehensive environmental assessment (CEA) approach as a holistic way to manage complex information and to structure input from diverse stakehold...

Using cross-country data from a sample of low, middle and high-income countries, the paper provides the first empirical test of the empirical relationships between national measures of social capital (civic and public), social divergence and social capacity upon various indicators of national environmental performance. The results indicate a possible link between public social capital (democrac...

A simple quantitative approach to enable chemists to compare alternative chemical syntheses on the lab bench with respect to their resource usage and their potential environmental impact is proposed; this may be useful for the systematic design of more sustainable processes. We consider as metrics the mass index S(-1) and the environmental factor E to characterize quantitatively the reaction in...

das erlernen einer zweiten sprache neben der erstsprache, n?mlich der muttersprache, gilt als zweitspracherwerb. man kann verschiedene formen des zweitspracherwerbs unterscheiden und zwar je nachdem, in welchem alter, auf welche weise, mit welchen zielen und bis zu welchem grad der sprachbeherrschung die neue sprache gelernt wird. aber es spielt eine besonders gro?e rolle, ob diese neue sprache...

It is shown in this paper that the estimates of technical efficiency, scale economies, and the shadow prices of bad outputs for polluting firms in India are sensitive to the specification of technologies and environmental regulation. The output and input distance functions with the assumption of weak disposability of bad outputs account for the effect of environmental regulation on the producti...