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- Title
Environmental Performance in Countries Worldwide: Determinant Factors and Multivariate Analysis.
- Authors
Gallego-Álvarez, Isabel; Purificación Vicente-Galindo, Ma; Purificación Galindo-Villardón, Ma; Rodríguez-Rosa, Miguel
- Abstract
The aim of this study is to analyze the environmental performance of countries and the variables that can influence it. At the same time, we performed a multivariate analysis using the HJ-biplot, an exploratory method that looks for hidden patterns in the data, obtained from the usual singular value decomposition (SVD) of the data matrix, to contextualize the countries grouped by geographical areas and the variables relating to environmental indicators included in the environmental performance index. The sample used comprises 149 countries of different geographic areas. The findings obtained from the empirical analysis emphasize that socioeconomic factors, such as economic wealth and education, as well as institutional factors represented by the style of public administration, in particular control of corruption, are determinant factors of environmental performance in the countries analyzed. In contrast, no effect on environmental performance was found for factors relating to the internal characteristics of a country or political factors.
- Subjects
SINGULAR value decomposition; MULTIVARIATE analysis; ANALYSIS of variance; ENVIRONMENTAL indicators; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2014, Vol 6, Issue 11, p7807
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su6117807