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Book Chapters

Hearne, S.R. (2008) Approaching Environmental Security. In: Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts, Liotta, P.H., Mouat, D.A., Kepner, W.G. and Lancaster, J.M. (Eds.), pp. 217-251.  Dordrecht, Netherlands:  Springer.

Levy, M. (2001) Corruption and the 2001 Environmental Sustainability Index. In: Global Corruption Report 2001, Hodess, R. (Ed.), pp. 300-302. Berlin, Germany: Transparency International.

http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/gcr2001.htm

Schaefer, B.D. and Schavey, A. (2002) America's International Development Agenda. In: Backgrounder. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/BG1546.cfm

Books and Reports

Birdsall, N. and Clemens, M. (2003) From Promise to Performance: How Rich Countries Can Help Poor Countries Help Themselves. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development.

http://www.cgdev.org/Publications/Index.cfm?PubID=35

Esty, D. and Cornelius, P.K. (2002) Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global Report 2001-2002. New York: Oxford University Press.

Foa, R. (2009) Social and governance dimensions of climate change: implications for policy. World Bank Policy Working Paper, No. 4939. pp. 37. World Bank.

http://go.worldbank.org/86BW8YZP60

Rose, A.K. and Spiegel, M.M. (2006) Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange: The Case of Environmental Treaties. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper Series. San Francisco, CA. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 36pp.

http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/2006/wp06-33bk.pdf

Stiglitz, J.E., Sen, A. and Fitoussi, J.-P. (2009) Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. 291pp.

http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/en/index.htm

UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) (2004) Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development. New York, NY: United Nations Development Programme.
http://www.undp.org/bcpr/disred/rdr.htm

van de Kerk, G. and Manuel, A. (2010). Sustainable Society Index 2010. Sustainable Society Foundation.

http://www.ssfindex.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/Publication_SSI2010.pdf

WRI (2003) World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, Voice, and Power. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute.

http://pubs.wri.org/pubs_pdf.cfm?PubID=3764

 

Journal Articles

Abayomi, K., Gelman, A. and Levy, M.A. (2008) Diagnostics for multivariate imputations. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 57(3), 273-291.

Abouelnaga, A. E., Metwally, A., Aly, N., Nagy, M. and Agamy, S. (2010) Assessment of nuclear energy sustainability index using fuzzy logic. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 240(7): 1928-1933.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2010.03.010

Alfsen, K.H. and Greaker, M. (2007) From natural resources and environmental accounting to construction of indicators for sustainable development. Ecological Economics, 61(4): 600-610.

Anon. (2001) Keeping score. The Ecologist, 31(3): 44.

Anon. (2002) Rich countries' environments no cleaner than poor. The Ecologist, 32(5): 10.

Ayalon, O. and Avnimelech, Y. (2007) The role of an academic institute in setting national environmental policy: The case of Israel. Energy, 32(6): 927-934.

Bai, X., Wieczorek, A.J., Kaneko, S., Lisson, S. and Contreras, A. (2009) Enabling sustainability transitions in Asia: The importance of vertical and horizontal linkages. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 76(2): 255-266.

Bartelmus, P. (2003) Dematerialization and capital maintenance: Two sides of the sustainability coin. Ecological Economics, 46(1): 61-81.

Bass, S., Bigg, T., Bishop, J., and Tunstall, D. (2006).  Sustaining the environment to fight poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Review of European Community & International Environmental Law, 15(1): 39-55.

Beça, P. and Santos, R. (2010) Measuring sustainable welfare: A new approach to the ISEW. Ecological Economics, 69(4): 810-819.

Blinc, R., Zidanšek, A., and Šlaus, I. (2006) Sustainable development after Johannesburg and Iraq: The global situation and the cases of Slovenia and Croatia. Energy, 31(13): 1923-1932.

Bobrow, D.B. and Boyer, M.A. (2001) Public Opinion and International Policy Choices: Global Commitments for Japan and Its Peers? Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2(1): 67-95.

Böhringer, C. and Jochem, P.E.P. (2007) Measuring the immeasurable -- A survey of sustainability indices. Ecological Economics, 63(1): 1-8.

Bouriaud, L. (2005) Causes of illegal logging in Central and Eastern Europe. Small-Scale Forestry, 4(3): 269-291.

Bowen, H.P. and Moesen, W. (2007) Benchmarking the performance of nations: Non-uniform weighting and non-economic dimensions. Corporate Governance, 7(1): 6-16.

Brenkert, A.L. and Malone, E.L. (2005) Modeling vulnerability and resilience to climate change: A case study of India and Indian states. Climatic Change, 72(1-2): 57-102.

Busse, M. (2004) Trade, environmental regulations and the World Trade Organization: New empirical evidence. Journal of World Trade, 38(2): 285-306.

Carter, P. (2000) World Watch: Living green and the bottom line. Mother Earth News, (180): 14.

Casimir, G. and Dutilh, C. (2003) Sustainability: A gender studies perspective. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 27(4): 316-325.

Castellani, V. and Sala, S. (2010) Sustainable performance index for tourism policy development. Tourism Management, 31(6): 871-880.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2009.10.001

Chaves, H. and Alipaz, S. (2007) An integrated indicator based on basin hydrology, environment, life, and policy: The Watershed Sustainability Index. Water Resources Management, 21(5): 883-895.

Costanza, R. and Farber, S. (2002) Introduction to the special issue on the dynamics and value of ecosystem services: Integrating economic and ecological perspectives. Ecological Economics, 41(3): 367-373.

Cullen, R., Moran, E. and Hughey, K.F.D. (2005) Measuring the success and cost effectiveness of New Zealand multiple-species projects to the conservation of threatened species. Ecological Economics, 53 (3): 311-323.

Cust, J. (2009) Using intermediate indicators: lessons for climate policy. Climate Policy, 9(5): 450-463.

Cutter, S.L. (2003) The vulnerability of science and the science of vulnerability. Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 93(1): 1-12.

Dalton, R.J. (2005) The greening of the globe? Cross-national levels of environmental group membership. Environmental Politics, 14(4): 441-459.

Dasgupta, M. (2004) The access initiative: Promoting sustainable development through good governance. Sustainable Development Law and Policy, IV(1): 31-37.
http://wcl.american.edu/org/sdlp/pdf/SDLP.pdf

De Carvalho, S.C.P., Karden, K.J. and Armitage, N.P. (2009) Application of a sustainability index for integrated urban water management in Southern African cities: Case study comparison – Maputo and Hermanus. Water South Africa, 35(2): 144-151.

de Sherbinin, A. (2000) Population, development, and human security: A micro-level perspective. Aviso: An Information Bulletin on Global Environmental Change and Human Security, (7): 9-15.
http://www.gechs.org/aviso/avisoenglish/seven_lg.shtml

Dietz, T., Rosa, E.A. and York, R. (2009) Efficient well-being: Rethinking sustainability as the relationship between human well-being and environmental impacts. Human Ecology Review, 16(1): 114-123.

Duxbury, J. and Dickinson, S. (2007) Principles for sustainable governance of the coastal zone: In the context of coastal disasters. Ecological Economics, 63(2-3): 319-330.

Ebert, U. and Welsch, H. (2004) Meaningful environmental indices: a social choice approach. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 47(2): 270-283.

Egger, P. and Winner, H. (2005) Evidence on corruption as an incentive for foreign direct investment. European Journal of Political Economy, 21(4): 932-952.

Eriksen, S., Kelly, P. (2007) Developing Credible Vulnerability Indicators for Climate Adaptation Policy Assessment. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 12(4): 495-524.

Esty, D.C. (2001) Toward data-driven environmentalism: The environmental sustainability index. Environmental Law Reporter, 31(5): 10603-10613.

Esty, D.C. and Porter, M.E. (2005) National environmental performance: an empirical analysis of policy results and determinants. Environment and Development Economics, 10(4): 391-434.

Feitelson, E. and Chenoweth, J. (2002) Water poverty: Towards a meaningful indicator. Water Policy, 4(3): 263-281.

Feroz, E.H., Raab, R.L., Ulleberg, G.T. and Alsharif, K. (2009) Global warming and environmental production efficiency ranking of the Kyoto Protocol nations. Journal of Environmental Management, 90(2): 1178-1183.

Fisher, D.R. and Freudenburg, W.R. (2004) Postindustrialization and environmental quality: An empirical analysis of the environmental state. Social Forces, 83(1): 157-188.

Floridi, M., Pagni, S., Falorni, S. and Luzzati, T. (2011) An exercise in composite indicators construction: Assessing the sustainability of Italian regions. Ecological Economics, 70(8): 1440-1447.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.03.003

Fraser, E.D.G., Mabee, W. and Slaymaker, O. (2003) Mutual vulnerability, mutual dependence: The reflexive relation between human society and the environment. Global Environmental Change, 13(2): 137-144.

Fraser, E.D.G., Dougill, A.J., Mabee, W.E., Reed, M. and McAlpine, P. (2006) Bottom up and top down: analysis of participatory processes for sustainability indicator identification as a pathway to community empowerment and sustainable environmental management. Journal of Environmental Management, 78(2): 114-127.

Fredriksson, P.G. and Millimet, D.L. (2004) Electoral rules and environmental policy. Economics Letters, 84(2): 237-244.

Fredriksson, P. and Wollscheid, J. (2007) Democratic institutions versus autocratic regimes: The case of environmental policy. Public Choice, 130(3): 381-393.

Fredriksson, P.G. and Wollscheid, J.R. (2008) The political economy of investment: The case of pollution control technology. European Journal of Political Economy, 24(1): 53-72.

Freymeyer, R.H. and Johnson, B.E. (2010) A cross-cultural investigation of factors influencing environmental actions. Sociological Spectrum 30(2): 184 - 195.

Füssel, H.-M. (2010) How inequitable is the global distribution of responsibility, capability, and vulnerability to climate change: A comprehensive indicator-based assessment. Global Environmental Change, 20(4): 597-611.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.07.009

Gasparatos, A., El-Haram, M. and Horner, M. (2009) The argument against a reductionist approach for measuring sustainable development performance and the need for methodological pluralism. Accounting Forum, 33(3): 245-256.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2008.07.006

Giannetti, B. F., Almeida, C. M. V. B. and Bonilla, S. H. (2010) Comparing emergy accounting with well-known sustainability metrics: The case of Southern Cone Common Market, Mercosur. Energy Policy, 38(7): 3518-3526.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.02.027

Giannetti, B.F., Bonilla, S.H., Silva, C.C. and Almeida, C.M.V.B. (2009) The reliability of experts' opinions in constructing a composite environmental index: The case of ESI 2005. Journal of Environmental Management, 90(8): 2448-2459.

Gifford, R., Scannell, L., Kormos, C., Smolova, L., Biel, A., Boncu, S., Corral, V., Güntherf, H., Hanyu, K., Hine, D., Kaiser, F.G., Korpela, K., Lima, L.M., Mertig, A.G., Mira, R.G., Moser, G., Passafaro, P., Pinheiro, J.Q., Saini, S., Sako, T., Sautkina, E., Savina, Y., Schmuck, P., Schultz, W., Sobeck, K., Sundblad, E.-L. and Uzzell, D. (2009) Temporal pessimism and spatial optimism in environmental assessments: An 18-nation study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 29(1): 1-12.

Gilley, B. (2006) The determinants of state legitimacy: Results for 72 Countries. International Political Science Review, 27(1): 47-71.

Gjølberg, M. (2009) Measuring the immeasurable?: Constructing an index of CSR practices and CSR performance in 20 countries. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 25(1): 10-22.

Globerman, S. and Shapiro, D. (2002) Global foreign direct investment flows: The role of governance infrastructure. World Development, 30(11): 1899-1919.

Göll, E. and Thio, S. (2008) Institutions for a sustainable development—experiences from EU-countries. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 10(1): 69-88.

Gowrie, M.N. (2003) Environmental Vulnerability Index for the island of Tobago, West Indies. Conservation Ecology, 7(2): 11-27.
http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss2/art11

Grolleau, G. and El Harbi, S. (2008) Why some countries adopt ecolabeling schemes in their regulatory arsenal and others do not? Economics Bulletin, 17(3): 1-11.

Hanson, A.J. (2003) Measuring progress towards sustainable development. Ocean & Coastal Management, 46(3-4): 381-390.

Harrison, C. (2004) Peer review, politics and pluralism. Environmental Science and Policy, 7(5), 357-368.

Hayward, S.F. (2003) A sensible environmentalism. The Public Interest, (151): 62-76.

Hecht, J.E. (2003) Sustainability indicators on the web. Environment, 45(1): 3.

Heiman, M.K. and Solomon, B.D. (2007) Fueling U.S. transportation: The hydrogen economy and its alternatives. Environment, 49(8): 10-25.

Hermans, E., Van den Bossche, F. and Wets, G. (2008) Combining road safety information in a performance index. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 40(4), 1337-1344.

Herstein, L.M., Filion, Y.R. and Hall, K.R. (2009) Evaluating environmental impact in water distribution system design. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 15(3): 241-250.

Hezri, A. A. and Dovers, S. R. (2006).  Sustainability indicators, policy and governance: Issues for ecological economics. Ecological Economics, 60(1), 86-99.

Holm, S.-O. and Englund, G. (2009) Increased ecoefficiency and gross rebound effect: Evidence from USA and six European countries 1960-2002. Ecological Economics, 68(3): 879-887.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.07.006

Holmberg, S., Rothstein, B. and Nasiritousi, N. (2009) Quality of government: What you get. Annual Review of Political Science, 12(1): 135-161.

Honkasalo, A. (2001) Eco-efficiency and integrated product policy: Lessons from Finland. Corporate Environmental Strategy, 8(2): 109-117.

Huang, H.-F. and Lo, S.-L. (2011) Review and classify the GHGs-related indicators. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 15(1): 594-602.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2010.07.023

Huang, Y.-T., Pan, T.-C. and Kao, J.-J. (2011) Performance assessment for municipal solid waste collection in Taiwan. Journal of Environmental Management, 92(4): 1277-1283.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.12.002

Hughes, B.B. and Johnston , P.D. (2005) Sustainable futures: Policies for global development. Futures, 37(8): 813-831.

Hughey, K.F.D., Cullen, R., Kerr, G.N. and Cook, A.J. (2004) Application of the pressure-state-response framework to perceptions reporting of the state of the New Zealand environment. Journal of Environmental Management, 70(1): 85-93.

Hughey, K.F.D., Kerr, G.N. and Cullen, R. (2007) Public perceptions of New Zealand freshwater and its management - reconciling the science and management implications. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 14(2): 82-92.

Hunold, C. and Dryzek, J.S. (2002) Green political theory and the state: Context is everything. Global Environmental Politics, 2(3): 17-39.

Hur, T., Kim, I. and Yamamoto, R. (2004) Measurement of green productivity and its improvement. Journal of Cleaner Production, 12(7): 673-683.

Isaksson, R. and Garvare, R. (2003) Measuring sustainable development using process models. Managerial Auditing Journal, 18(8): 649-656.

Jalal, K.F. and Rogers, P.P. (2002) Measuring environmental performance in Asia. Ecological Indicators, 2(1-2): 39-59.

Kao, J.-J., Pan, T.-C. and Lin, C.-M. (2009) An environmental sustainability based budget allocation system for regional water quality management. Journal of Environmental Management, 90(2): 699-709.

Karavanas, A., Chaloulakou, A. and Spyrellis, N. (2009) Evaluation of the implementation of best available techniques in IPPC context: an environmental performance indicators approach. Journal of Cleaner Production, 17(4): 480-486.

Kelsey, R. and Becker, M. (2003) Environmental sustainability through GIS: An online E-Seminar for higher education. URISA Journal, 15(1): 31-35.
http://www.urisa.org/Journal/protect/Vol15No1/kelsey.pdf


Khanna, N. (2000) Measuring environmental quality: an index of pollution. Ecological Economics, 35(2): 191-202.

Kim, C. (2010) Place promotion and symbolic characterization of New Songdo City, South Korea. Cities, 27(1): 13-19.

Kim, J. (2006) The environmental impact of industrialization in East Asia and strategies toward sustainable development. Sustainability Science, 1(1): 107-114.

Kivimaa, P. and Mickwitz, P. (2006) The challenge of greening technologies—environmental policy integration in Finnish technology policies. Research Policy, 35(5): 729-744.

Koehn, P. (2007) Peaceful and sustainable development? Middle-management entrepreneurship and transnational competence in China. East Asia, 24(3): 251-263.

Konar, A.K. (2009) A Paradox of corporate perception and perpetuation of corruption. Journal of Social Sciences (India), 18(2): 18-93.

Krajnc, D. and Glavic, P. (2005) A model for integrated assessment of sustainable development. Resources, Conservation and Recycling , 43(2): 189-208.

Kummu, M. and Varis, O. (2011) The world by latitudes: A global analysis of human population, development level and environment across the north-south axis over the past half century. Applied Geography, 31(2): 495-507.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.10.009

Lee, Y.-J. and Huang, C.-M. (2007) Sustainability index for Taipei. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 27(6): 505-521.

Lenzen, M., Dey, C.J., and Murray , S.A. (2004) Historical accountability and cumulative impacts: the treatment of time in corporate sustainability reporting. Ecological Economics, 51(3-4): 237-250.

Leon, C. and Robles, M. (2002) Developing a cadre of professionals with a global environmental perspective. Ocean & Coastal Management, 45(9-10): 633-648.

Levy, M.A. (2003) Bytes of Note; Tracking environment-security connections. Environment, 45(5): 3.

Li, Q. and Reuveny, R. (2006).  Democracy and environmental degradation. International Studies Quarterly, 50(4): 935-956.

Lindenberg, M. (2002) Measuring household livelihood security at the family and community level in the developing world. World Development, 30(2): 301-318.

Liou, M.-L., Yeh, S.-C. and Yu, Y.-H. (2006) Reconstruction and systemization of the methodologies for strategic environmental assessment in Taiwan. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 26(2): 170-184.

Liu, J. and Diamond, J. (2005) China's environment in a changing world. Nature, 435(7046): 1179-1186.

Liu, J. and Raven, P. H. (2010) China's environmental challenges and implications for the world. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 40(9): 823 - 851.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2010.502645

Liu, K. (2007) Evaluating environmental sustainability: An integration of multiple-criteria decision-making and fuzzy logic. Environmental Management, 39(5): 721-736.

Lu, Y. (2010) Do environmental regulations influence the competitiveness of pollution-intensive products? Frontiers of Economics in China, 5(2): 276-298.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11459-010-0014-3

Lukman, R., Krajnc, D. and Glavic, P. (2009) Fostering collaboration between universities regarding regional sustainability initiatives - the University of Maribor. Journal of Cleaner Production, 17(12): 1143-1153.


Lun, G., Holzer, D., Tappeiner, G. and Tappeiner, U. (2006) The stability of rankings derived from composite indicators: Analysis of the “IL Sole 24 Ore” quality of life report. Social Indicators Research, 77(2): 307-331.

Massam, B.H. (2002) Quality of life: Public planning and private living. Progress in Planning, 58(3): 141-227.

Mayer, A.L. (2008) Strengths and weaknesses of common sustainability indices for multidimensional systems. Environment International, 34(2): 277-291.

Min, B.S. (2007) Determinants of water pricing - a regression analysis with cross-country data. Water Policy, 9(4): 363-372.

Moerbeek, H. and Casimir, G. (2005) Gender differences in consumers' acceptance of genetically modified foods. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 29(4): 308-318.

Mol, A.P.J. (2002) Ecological modernization and the global economy. Global Environmental Politics, 2(2): 92-115.

Morse, S. (2003) Greening the United Nations' Human Development Index? Sustainable Development, 11(4): 183-198.

Morse, S. (2006) Is corruption bad for environmental sustainability? A cross-national analysis. Ecology and Society, 11(1).

Morse, S. (2008) On the use of headline indices to link environmental quality and income at the level of the nation state. Applied Geography, 28(2): 77-95.

Morse, S. and Fraser, E.D.G. (2005) Making ‘dirty’ nations look clean? The nation state and the problem of selecting and weighting indices as tools for measuring progress towards sustainability. Geoforum, 36(5): 625-640.

Moussiopoulos, N., Achillas, C., Vlachokostas, C., Spyridi, D. and Nikolaou, K. (2010) Environmental, social and economic information management for the evaluation of sustainability in urban areas: A system of indicators for Thessaloniki, Greece. Cities, 27(5): 377-384.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2010.06.001

Mukherjee, S. and Kathuria, V. (2006) Is economic growth sustainable? Environmental quality of Indian states after 1991. International Journal of Sustainable Development, 9(1): 38-60.

Nahman, A., Wise, R. and Lange, W.d. (2009) Environmental and resource economics in South Africa: status quo and lessons for developing countries. South African Journal of Science, 105(No. 9-10): 350-355.

Ness, B., Urbel-Piirsalu, E., Anderberg, S. and Olsson, L. (2007).  Categorising tools for sustainability assessment. Ecological Economics, 60(3), 498-508.

Neumayer, E. (2002) Do democracies exhibit stronger international environmental commitment? A cross-country analysis. Journal of Peace Research, 39(2): 139-164.

Nielson, D.L. and Tierney, M.J. (2003) Delegation to international organizations: Agency theory and World Bank environmental reform. International Organization, 57(2), 241-276.

Niemeijer, D. (2002) Developing indicators for environmental policy: Data-driven and theory-driven approaches examined by example. Environmental Science & Policy, 5(2): 91-103.

Niemeijer, D. and de Groot, R.S. (2007) A conceptual framework for selecting environmental indicator sets. Ecological Indicators, 8(1): 14-25.

Niemeijer, D. and de Groot, R. (2008) Framing environmental indicators: Moving from causal chains to causal networks. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 10(1): 89-106.

Özdemir, E. D., Härdtlein, M., Jenssen, T., Zech, D. and Eltrop, L. (2011) A confusion of tongues or the art of aggregating indicators--Reflections on four projective methodologies on sustainability measurement. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 15(5): 2385-2396.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2011.02.02

Pan, T.-C. and Kao, J.-J. (2009) Inter-generational equity index for assessing environmental sustainability: An example on global warming. Ecological Indicators, 9(4): 725-731.

Park, H., Russell, C. and Lee, J. (2007) National culture and environmental sustainability: A Cross-national Analysis. Journal of Economics & Finance, 31(1): 104-121.

Parris, T.M. (2003) Toward a sustainability transition--the international consensus. Environment, 45(1): 12.

Parris, T.M. (2000) Tracking down state of the environment reports. Environment, 42(3): 3.

Parris, T.M. and Kates, R.W. (2003) Characterizing and measuring sustainable development. Annual Review Environmental Resources, 28(13): 1-28.

http://www.isciences.com/NewSite/AR198-EG28-13[001-028].pdf

Pellegrini, L., and Gerlagh, R. (2006).  Corruption, democracy, and environmental policy: An empirical contribution to the debate. The Journal of Environment Development, 15(3): 332-354.

Phillis, Y. A., Grigoroudis, E. & Kouikoglou, V. S. (2011) Sustainability ranking and improvement of countries. Ecological Economics, 70(3): 542-553.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.09.037

Pillarisetti, J.R. and van den Bergh, J.C.J.M. (2010) Sustainable nations: what do aggregate indexes tell us? Environment, Development and Sustainability, 12(1): 49-62.

Ranis, G., Stewart, F. and Samman, E. (2006).  Human development: Beyond the human development index. Journal of Human Development, 7(3): 323-358.

Raymond, L. (2004) Economic growth as environmental policy? Reconsidering the environmental Kuznets curve. Journal of Public Policy, 24(03): 327-348.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1017/S0143814X04000145

Reed, M. S., Fraser, E. D. G. and Dougill, A. J. (2006).  An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities. Ecological Economics, 59(4): 406-418.

Ronchi, E., Federico, A. and Musmeci, F. (2002) A system oriented integrated indicator for sustainable development in Italy. Ecological Indicators, 2(1-2): 197-210.

Running, S.W., Nemani, R.R. and Heinsch, F.A. (2004) A continuous satellite-derived measure of global terrestrial primary production. BioScience, 54(6): 547-560.

Saltelli, A. (2007) Composite indicators between analysis and advocacy. Social Indicators Research, 81(1): 65-77.

Salvati, L. and Zitti, M. (2009) Substitutability and weighting of ecological and economic indicators: Exploring the importance of various components of a synthetic index. Ecological Economics, 68(4): 1093-1099.

Schädler, S., Morio, M., Bartke, S., Rohr-Zänker, R. and Finkel, M. (2011) Designing sustainable and economically attractive brownfield revitalization options using an integrated assessment model. Journal of Environmental Management, 92(3): 827-837.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.10.026

Scanlon, N.L. (2007) An analysis and assessment of environmental operating practices in hotel and resort properties. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 26(3): 711-723.

Scarth, L.L. (2002) Reference on the Web. The Booklist, 98(11): 963.

Shin, D., Curtis, M., Huisingh, D. and Zwetsloot, G. I. (2008) Development of a sustainability policy model for promoting cleaner production: a knowledge integration approach. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16(17): 1823-1837.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2008.06.006

Shmelev, S.E. and Rodríguez-Labajos, B. (2009) Dynamic multidimensional assessment of sustainability at the macro level: The case of Austria. Ecological Economics, 68(10): 2560-2573.

Siche, J.R., Agostinho, F., Ortega, E. and Romeiro, A. (2008) Sustainability of nations by indices: Comparative study between environmental sustainability index, ecological footprint and the emergy performance indices. Ecological Economics, 66(4): 628-637.

Singh, R.K., Murty, H.R., Gupta, S.K. and Dikshit, A.K. (2007) Development of composite sustainability performance index for steel industry. Ecological Indicators, 7(3): 565-588.

Singh, R.K., Murty, H.R., Gupta, S.K. and Dikshit, A.K. (2009) An overview of sustainability assessment methodologies. Ecological Indicators, 9(2): 189-212.

Sinha-Khetriwal, D., Kraeuchi, P. and Schwaninger, M. (2005) A comparison of electronic waste recycling in Switzerland and in India . Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 25(5): 492-504.

Šlaus, I. (2007) Building a knowledge-based society:  The case of South East Europe. Futures, 39(8): 986-996.

Smith, A.K. and Cole, K. (2002) Reducing CAL/EPA's environment footprint. Quality Congress. ASQ's Annual Quality Congress Proceedings, 301.

Sternlieb, F. R. and Laituri, M. (2010) Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) indicators: Measuring hydrophilanthropic quality. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 145(1): 51-60.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2010.00082.x

Sullivan, C. (2002) Calculating a water poverty index. World Development, 30(7): 1195-1210.

Sullivan, C. and Meigh, J. (2007) Integration of the biophysical and social sciences using an indicator approach: Addressing water problems at different scales. Water Resources Management, 21(1): 111-128.

Sutton, P.C. (2003) An empirical environmental sustainability index derived solely fom nighttime satellite imagery and ecosystem service valuation. Population and Environment, 24(4): 293-311.

Sutton, P.C. and Costanza, R. (2002) Global estimates of market and non-market values derived from nighttime satellite imagery, land cover, and ecosystem service valuation. Ecological Economics, 41(3): 509-527.

Tonn, B. (2007) Determinants of futures-oriented environmental policies: A multi-country analysis. Futures, 39(7): 773-789.

Torgler, B., Frey, B.S. and Wilson, C. (2009) Environmental and pro-social norms: Evidence on littering. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 9(1): Article 18.

http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol9/iss1/art18/

Uwasu, M. and Yabar, H. (2011) Assessment of sustainable development based on the capital approach. Ecological Indicators, 11(2): 348-352.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.06.002

Vachon, S. and Mao, Z. (2008) Linking supply chain strength to sustainable development: A country-level analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16(15), 1552-1560.

Van de Kerk, G. and Manuel, A.R. (2008) A comprehensive index for a sustainable society: The SSI -- the Sustainable Society Index. Ecological Economics, 66(2-3), 228-242.

van Dijk, M.P. and Mingshun, Z. (2005) Sustainability indices as a tool for urban managers, evidence from four medium-sized Chinese cities. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 25(6): 667-688.

Velazquez, E. (2007) Water trade in Andalusia. Virtual water: An alternative way to manage water use. Ecological Economics, 63(1): 201-208.

Wagner, M. (2011) Corporate performance implications of extended stakeholder management: New insights on mediation and moderation effects. Ecological Economics, 70(5): 942-950.
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Welfens, P., Perret, J. and Erdem, D. (2010) Global economic sustainability indicator: analysis and policy options for the Copenhagen process. International Economics and Economic Policy, 7(2): 153-185.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10368-010-0165-9

Welsch, H. (2002) Preferences over prosperity and pollution: Environmental valuation based on happiness Surveys. Kyklos, 55(4): 473-494.

Welsch, H. (2003) Freedom and rationality as predictors of cross-national happiness patterns: The role of income as a mediating variable. Journal of Happiness Studies, 4(3): 295-321.

Welsch, H. (2004) Corruption, growth, and the environment: a cross-country analysis. Environment and Development Economics, 9(5): 663-693.

Welsch, H. (2007) Environmental welfare analysis: A life satisfaction approach. Ecological Economics, 62(3-4): 544-551.

Whitford, A.B. and Wong, K. (2009) Political and social foundations for environmental sustainability. Political Research Quarterly, 62(1): 190-204.

Wilson, J., Tyedmers, P. and Pelot, R. (2007) Contrasting and comparing sustainable development indicator metrics. Ecological Indicators, 7(2): 299-314.

Yeh, A.J.-Y., Lim, S. and Vos, E. (2007) Path dependence or convergence? The evolution of corporate ownership around the world. Review of Law and Economics, 3(2): 517-551.

Yu, Y. and Wen, Z. (2010) Evaluating China's urban environmental sustainability with Data Envelopment Analysis. Ecological Economics, 69(9): 1748-1755.
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Zhou, P., Ang, B. W. and Poh, K. L. (2006).  Comparing aggregating methods for constructing the composite environmental index: An objective measure. Ecological Economics, 59(3): 305-311.


Zhou, P., Ang, B. W. and Poh, K. L. (2006).  Slacks-based efficiency measures for modeling environmental performance. Ecological Economics, 60(1): 111-118.

Zhou, P., Ang, B.W. and Poh, K.L. (2008) Measuring environmental performance under different environmental DEA technologies. Energy Economics, 30(1): 1-14.

Zidansek, A. (2007) Sustainable development and happiness in nations. Energy, 32(6): 891-897.

 

Law Review Articles

The Economics of Energy and the Environment: Discussion Following the Remarks of Mr. Charnovitz, Mr. Sargent and Mr. Cleland. (2002) Canada-United States Law Journal, 28(1): 521-531.

Anderson, T.L. and Kosnik, L.-R. (2002) Symposium on Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist: Sustainable skepticism and sustainable development. Case Western Reserve Law Review, 53(2): 439-448.

Aubry, A. (2001) Environmental Law, The Economy, and Sustainable Development, edited by Richard L. Revesz, Philippe Sands, and Richard B. Stewart. (2001) , Book Note. Harvard Environmental Law Review, 25(2): 601-612.

Dernbach, J.C. (2002) Symposium on Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist: Sustainable versus unsustainable propositions. Case Western Reserve Law Review, 53(2): 449-475.

Dernbach, J.C. (2002) Targets, timetables and effective implementing mechanisms: Necessary building blocks for sustainable development. William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 27(1): 79-136.

Esty, D.C. (2004) Environmental protection in the Information Age. New York University Law Review, 79(1): 115-211.

Karkkainen, B.C. (2003) The pragmatic ecologist: Environmental protection as a jurisdynamic experience: adaptive ecosystem management and regulatory penalty defaults: Toward a bounded pragmatism, Symposium. Minnesota Law Review, 97(4): 943-998.

Klee, R.J. (2004) Enabling environmental sustainability in the United States: The case for a comprehensive material flow inventory. Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 23(1): 131-192.

Robinson, N. (2002-2003) Befogged vision: International environmental governance a decade after Rio. William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 27(2): 299-364.

Salzman, J., Thompson, B.H. Jr. and Daily, G.C. (2001) Protecting ecosystem services: Science, economics, and law. Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 20(2): 309-332.

Popular Magazine & Newspaper Articles

Anon. (2001) Finance and Economics: Green and Growing. The Economist, 358: 74-77.

Bisbort, Alan (2003). The Environmental Sustainability Index:  A New Paradigm for Global Decision Making. Environment: Yale - The Journal of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2(1), 3-11.

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