Environment and Sustainability for ESG and SDGs

This book takes a non-parametric approach to analyze integrated measures of economic growth, energy use, and sustainability. Recently, many corporate leaders, policymakers, organizations, and individuals have become concerned about environmental issues, simultaneously paying attention to economic prosperity and the green growth of the economy. This book combines methodology and application. Methodologically, the book introduces non-parametric approachesfor instance, data envelopment analysisdiscriminant analysis (DEA-DA) and data envelopment analysisenvironmental assessment (DEA-EA). From a practical perspective, the book provides readers such as researchers and graduate students with models under the proposed non-parametric analytical frameworks and examines environmental issues and economic development. Included are application studies of these approaches using national-, regional-, and corporate-level datasets. Also discussed are policy implications and future directions of sustainable development based on empirical results.

Provides a comprehensive review of economic growth, energy use, and sustainability Proposes original approaches and models to examine integrated measures Discusses policy implications of green growth and future sustainable development

Autorentext

Dr. Toshiyuki Sueyoshi had been a full professor at Department of Management, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA. He holds Ph.D. in Management and has worked for universities in USA, Japan, and other countries. His research interests cover operations research, management science, risk and policy analysis, energy industries, and environmental issues. Dr. Sueyoshi explores theory and methodologies for efficiency/performance assessment and applies them to various entities such as companies and plants. He has published more than 300 papers in academic journals and books and these are cited many times by researchers.

Dr. Mika Goto is a full professor at School of Environment and Society, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan. She holds Ph.D. in Economics. Before joining the university, she worked for a research institute of electricity industry in Japan and conducted various research on energy and sustainability issues. Her research interests cover operations research, energy economics and policy, electricity industry, technology management, and sustainability. She has published many papers on efficiency analysis in academic journals and books.

Inhalt

General Description.- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).- Standard DEA Models for Efficiency Measures Perspectives from Energy Economics.- Radial, Non-radial and Intermediate Models for Environmental Assessment (ESG).- Intermediate Model for SDGs Three Time Structures.- A Frontier Shift on Unified Index Over Time Malmquist Index for SDGs Enhancement.- Club Convergence among OECD Nations under Managerial Disposability.- A Time Lag for Technology Shift DEA Perspectives.