Meaningful environmental indices: a social choice approach

By U. Ebert, H. Welsch. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Management Science and Operations Research

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Measuring energy poverty: Focusing on what matters (2012, unknown): “Ebert and Welsch (2004) see advantages in using such a model but also note its limitations.”
On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness (2018, background): “In fact, it is argued that, under such circumstances, it provides more meaningful results (see e.g. Ebert and Welsch 2004).”
Robust human development rankings (2008, background): “…lack of a known scienti c relationship which would otherwise serve to accommodate for such comparability problems between the dimensions under consideration, rather than the fact that the components were originally measured in di¤erent units (this point is also stressed by Ebert and Welsch, 2004).”
Designing an indicator of environmental responsibility (2006, background): “This paper is related to the work of Ebert and Welsch (2004), who address the question of how to build meaningful indices, where an index is a scalar function of a set of environmental indicators, possibly comprising different dimensions of environmental pressure.”
Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators: Methodology and User Guide (2008, methodology): “59 NORMALISATION The objective is to identify the most suitable normalization procedures to apply to the problem at hand, taking into account their properties with respect to the measurement units in which the indicators are expressed, and their robustness to possible outliers in the data (Ebert and”
Setting weights in multidimensional indices of well-being (2008, background): “In an interesting paper, Ebert and Welsch (2004) investigate the extent to which the ordering of the well-being bundles is invariant to the choice of the specific transformation function.”
A mathematical programming approach to constructing composite indicators (2007, methodology): “Although nonlinear aggregation may have some advantages as discussed in Ebert and Welsch (2004) and Zhou et al. (2006a), we have chosen linear aggregation procedure because of its simplicity and ease of understanding.”
An overview of sustainability assessment methodologies (2009, background): “Ebert and Welsch (2004) identified four generic classes of scales that can be applied to variables viz.”
Composite Indicator of Social Inclusion for European Countries (2014, background): “In particular, i CI looks like a geometric mean with some desirable properties, sometimes preferred to the traditional additive approach (Ebert and Welsch, 2004; Zhou and Ang, 2009).”
An Introduction to ‘Benefit of the Doubt’ Composite Indicators (2007, unknown): “Ebert and Welsch (2004) criticize the dependency of eventual ranks on the normalization/aggregation procedure from a measurement-theoretic point of view.”
Noncompensatory/nonlinear composite indicators for ranking countries: a defensible setting (2009, background): “2 Ebert and Welsch (2004) also propose the use social choice to improve the theoretical framework of environmental indexes.”
“It Pays to be Green” – A Premature Conclusion? (2006, background): “There is a growing literature on how to measure greenness in applied work (Tyteca 1995; Callens and Tyteca 1999; Olsthoorn et al. 2001; Ebert and Welsch 2004).”
Theoretical Reasoning of the Use of Indicators and Indices for Sustainable Development Assessment (2009, unknown): “Journal of Environmental Economics and Management(14), 323-336.”