Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index
December 19, 2007 by amathew , Brian Butler | Filed under: Industrialized vs Developing Economies,Literature Review
Esty, Daniel C., Marc A. Levy, Tanja Srebotnjak, Alexander de Sherbinin, Christine H. Kim, and Bridget Anderson (2006). Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & PolicyThis is a report by the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (Columbia University) in collaboration with the World Economic Forum (Geneva Switzerland) and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Ispra, Italy). One of the criticisms of the Millennium Development Goals effort by the United Nations is that there are insufficiently defined and inadequately measured parameters. This very complete and verbose report contains, once again, recognized assumptions and understandings regarding developing and industrialized economies. If one is interested in the actual parameters and figures related to developing these indexes and how the global community is measuring up to the goals one can examine in depth charts and graphs and compare regions versus individual countries. The majority of the applicability of the report lies in the Executive Summary and the First Chapter – The Need for Environmental Performance Indicators. Great reference information, providing good “check and balance” against UN-based references. Most of the referenced material was found in the first couple of sections. Very large document – caution is advised to concentrate on the research topic in question.