Development, Analysis And Discussion Of Indicators Of Sustainability: Application For Canadian Pulp And Paper Companies
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
22
Pages
11
Published
1997
Size
1,038 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/ECOSUD970091
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
I. Callens & S. van den Berghe
Abstract
The aim of this study is to develop a simple tool ("radar") which will allow a company to benchmark itself with respect to others and also help to point out its weaknesses and strengths. The choice of the criteria used to elaborate different social, economic and environmental performance measures and how their aggregation takes place will be discussed. The second objective is to find consistency and correlation between the different ways of measuring environmental performance. In the longer term, these "radar" images could allow us to discover underlying explanatory factors and obstacles to Sustainable Development. 1 Introduction Recently, environmental problems have evol
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