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Undesirable specialization in the construction of composite policy indicators: The Environmental Performance Index KU Leuven
The non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis approach is increasingly used to construct composite indicators for country performance monitoring, benchmarking, and policy evaluation in a large variety of fields. The flexibility in the definition of aggregation weights is praised as the method's most important advantage: DEA allows each evaluated country to look for its own optimal weights that maximize the composite indicator relative to the ...
Anopheles species associations in Southeast Asia: indicator species and environmental influences Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
BACKGROUND: Southeast Asia presents a high diversity of Anopheles. Environmental requirements differ for each species and should be clarified because of their influence on malaria transmission potential. Monitoring projects collect vast quantities of entomological data over the whole region and could bring valuable information to malaria control staff but collections are not always standardized and are thus difficult to analyze. In this context ...
Development of a GIS-based indicator for environmental pesticide exposure and its application to a Belgian case-control study on bladder cancer KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
We developed two indicators to assess the exposure of residents to agricultural pesticide use and applied it in a case-control study on bladder cancer in the province of Limburg, Belgium. The first indicator used a distance-weighted measure of crop area for specified crops (fruit trees, fruit bushes and vegetables). The second indicator used a distance-weighted measure of pesticide use. We used information at three scale levels: (a) information ...
Analysis of the Brussels flora as indicator for changing environmental quality. Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
With their species diversity, their population abundance and their integrator characters, higher plants represent useful tools to solve problems concerning the environment analysis and management. As they are good bioindicators, plants integrate many environmental parameters and can help to reveal the misworking of the ecosystems. Within this framework, a recent and complete survey of the phanerogamic flora of the Brussels area was carried out ...
A quantitative indicator framework for stand level evaluation and monitoring of environmentally sustainable forest management KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
An indicator framework was designed as an operational sciencebased tool for the evaluation of the environmental aspects of sustainable forest management at stand level in Flanders (Belgium). The framework aims to assess the effects of forest management on forest composition, structure and functioning. It consists of seven principles and 19 criteria, to which 157 potential indicators, selected from literature, were assigned; 40 of these were ...
The significance of palaeoecological indicators in reconstructing estuarine environments: A multi-proxy study of increased Middle Holocene tidal influence in the lower Scheldt river Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed
A conserved core of programmed cell death indicator genes discriminates developmentally and environmentally induced programmed cell death in plants Universiteit Gent
Car dependency beyond land use: Can a standardized built environment indicator predict car use? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In June 2019, the government of the Flemish Region (Belgium) launched the “mobility score,” a standardized built environment indicator that informs citizens in Flanders about the walking or cycling accessibility from their dwelling to a range of basic amenities and public transport stops. The development of the mobility score was developed to be a tool to raise awareness of the environmental impact of travel. Against this backdrop, this paper ...