environmental data analysis Articles

Integrated Environmental Site Characterization and Analysis: EQuIS in the Military (PDF)

The seamless integration of subsurface environmental geology and analytical chemistry data with the latest tools and technology for data management and analysis make site characterization and investigation more efficient than ever before. EarthSoft’s Environmental Quality Information System—EQuIS—has been chosen by many military agencies and organizations for the management of analytical ...

By EarthSoft, Inc

Post-(sustainable) development?

This paper critically reviews the application of a post-development analysis to sustainable development by employing a defined target for post-development analysis – the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Data from the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) for 146 countries are used to generate statistically significant EKC models, and the approach is deconstructed by employing ...

Dec. 19, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

What Does it Take to Sell Environmental Policy? An Empirical Analysis of Referendum Data

We analyze the factors that influence the support for environmental policy proposals. Swiss referendum data show that proposals obtain more yes-votes if they do not restrict consumption possibilities directly, if they are endorsed by the largest business association, if environmental preferences are strong and economic conditions are favorable at the time of the referendum. Also, there are more ...

Apr. 1, 2006

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Social network ties and resource acquisition: evidence from China`s transitional economy

Based on the system perspective, we develop a theoretical model for the relationship between social network (SN) ties and resource acquisition (RA) and examine how environmental dynamism (ED) moderates this relationship, then conduct empirical analysis using data of 326 new firms Jilin province of China. The result suggests that SN ties have positive effects on external RA and internal resource ...

Sep. 3, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

NSF invests in Azimuth1 to bring AI and data analytics to environmental cleanup

The US National Science Foundation selected Azimuth1 in a highly competitive round of Small Business Innovation Research awards. The award will go to supporting our efforts to create a commercial product that learns from thousands of recorded environmental spills and the following cleanups. Our model, which we call EnviMetric, looks at an individual spill event in the context of the many others ...

Jul. 20, 2017

By Azimuth1

Green decisions: consumers' environmental beliefs and green purchasing behaviour in Sri Lankan context

This study elucidates how consumers' environmental knowledge and affect influence green purchasing behaviour in Sri Lanka. A survey research was undertaken with a random sample of 238 consumers. The data analysis revealed that environmental knowledge is not a significant predictor but environmental affect is a significant and weak predictor of green purchase intention. It also discovered that the ...

Apr. 18, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

Anti-industrial pollution efficiency using DEA with constrained emission

DEA model is employed to estimate the anti-industrial pollution efficiency with constrained emission. This is a new set of DEA models with the sum of outputs of all DMUs being fixed. The developed DEA is used to compute anti-industrial pollution efficiency in all major cities of a province in China.Keywords: data envelopment analysis, DEA, equilibrium, frontier, programming, constrained ...

Apr. 1, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Deriving bio‐equivalents from in vitro bioassays: Assessment of existing uncertainties and strategies to improve accuracy and reporting

Bio‐equivalents (e.g., 17β‐estradiol or dioxin equivalents) are commonly employed to quantify the in vitro effects of complex human or environmental samples. However, there is no generally accepted data analysis strategy for estimating and reporting bio‐equivalents. Therefore, the aims of the present study are to 1) identify common mathematical models for the derivation of bio‐equivalents from ...

Jun. 25, 2013

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The relationships among environmental management, firm value and other firm attributes: evidence from Chinese manufacturing industry

Abstract: Many studies have investigated the relationships among environmental management, financial performance and other firm attributes. Their results are inconsistent and contested. Most of the empirical studies to date are in the context of developed countries rather than developing countries. This study fills this gap by providing an empirical examination of the relationships among ...

Jan. 1, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

The relationships among environmental management, firm value and other firm attributes: evidence from Chinese manufacturing industry

Many studies have investigated the relationships among environmental management, financial performance and other firm attributes. Their results are inconsistent and contested. Most of the empirical studies to date are in the context of developed countries rather than developing countries. This study fills this gap by providing an empirical examination of the relationships among environmental ...

Dec. 27, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Productivity and its components in Tunisian public hospitals

This paper analyses the productivity and efficiency of the Tunisian public hospitals over the period from 2000 to 2007. We obtain estimates of productivity using the bootstrapped Malmquist index, and a truncated regression model is used to examine how external factors impact the level of productivity and its components (i.e. (a) the bed occupancy ratio which represents the hospital capacity ...

May 22, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

Ecological values, narcissism, and materialism: a comparison of business students in the USA and The Netherlands

As business has a large impact on the natural environment, it is important to study the environmental values of business school students. This research focuses on the personality trait of narcissism, and its impact on materialism and environmental values. Data were collected in an exploratory analysis of the relationships between narcissism, materialism, and environmental values from business ...

Feb. 11, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers

Multiple criteria data envelopment analysis for full ranking units associated to environment impact assessment

The importance of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of large development projects is increasingly underlined. Usually, EIA involves a lot of qualitative and quantitative criteria. Data envelopment analysis (DEA), an effective method that is used to rank and select the best alternative from a set of alternatives, is not tailored to address qualitative criteria, thus rendering the ...

Nov. 7, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers

Modelling undesirable outputs in eco-efficiency evaluation to paper mills along the Huai River based on Shannon DEA

There are a great number of DEA models proposed to deal with ecological efficiency problems with undesirable outputs. However, which model should be used in a specific scenario or how about the discriminability of a given DEA model is hard to decide in practice. This paper uses the ecological Shannon DEA procedure based upon the existing study to obtain an ecological comprehensive efficiency ...

Dec. 27, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Environmental objectives and stakeholder influence in businesses of Qatar

We examine the environmental objectives of businesses in Qatar and the association with stakeholder influence. Our statistical analyses, from survey data collected by meeting 101 business executives, show that stakeholders who are affected by the actions of a firm sooner, influence environmental objectives that yield benefits in the short–term. Among all stakeholders, the government is the ...

Sep. 10, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

The Business of Brownfields: Managing Risk Using EQuIS and GIS

Untitled Document What is EQuIS? Sample data warehouse (Chemistry and Geology) Tools for checking and loading data from lab and field, enforcing data quality ArcGIS ‘wrapper’ to query and extract data spatially, creating labeled maps Links to many 3rd party tools commonly used by environmental professionals for visualizations and data ...

Nov. 1, 2005

By EarthSoft, Inc

Data Sharing – a Case of Shared Databases and Community Use of On-Line GIS Support Systems

Data management is becoming increasingly simple and complex at the same time. The challenge is to effectively use the increasing number of tools available to manage increasing amounts of environmental information for purposes of data capture, analysis, display, sharing and storage. Government is no longer the main collector and provider of data. Community groups possess vast amounts of data ...

Feb. 1, 2006

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Relationship between organisational value addition and environmental sustainability performance in an Indian pulp and paper manufacturing unit and its supply chain: a longitudinal case study

Organisations that improve 'value addition' by implementing several initiatives do not verify impact of these initiatives have on environment. The modern sustainability era, demands elimination of environmental impacts, i.e., a positive correlation is expected between value addition and environmental performance on long term basis. Many studies on Corporate Sustainability Management, based on the ...

Oct. 3, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

EEA Annual management plan 2012

I. EEA mission statement, vision and strategic objectives The European Environment Agency aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe’s environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy-makers, public institutions and the public. The EEA vision is to become recognised as the ...

Jan. 5, 2012

By European Environment Agency (EEA)

An investigation of the impact of left‐censored soil contamination data on the uncertainty of descriptive statistical parameters

Left‐censored concentration data are frequently encountered because measuring instruments cannot detect concentrations below instruments detection limit (DL). For statistical analysis of left‐censored data, environmental literature mainly refers to the following methods: maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), regression on order statistics using lognormal and gamma assumption (rROS and GROS, ...

Mar. 4, 2016

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.