Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2108476
Exploring the ecological efficiency as the path to resilience
Simona-Andreea Apostu
Valentina Vasile
Mirela Panait
Valentin Sava
Abstract
The permanent changes in society affect, among other, the environment.
This is why environmental efficiency plays a very important
role, being quantified in different forms. In our paper we
have developed a composite index of ecological efficiency taking
into account two dimensions, environmental pollution and
resource consumption, each one being characterized by specific
indicators. Thus, using this index, the aim was to evaluate and
rank the level of greening of each country in Europe. Crises over
time, including the health crisis caused by coronavirus, have
focused to resilience, so we have highlighted whether it is significantly
influenced by the ecological efficiency index. In addition,
we analyzed whether ecological efficiency is related to investments
in a country, financial, material and technological potential.
Keywords
Resilience; ecological efficiency; regression analysis; main components analysis; cluster
Hrčak ID:
306646
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2023.
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