PUBLICATION | 2011 Methodological Considerations on Regional Sustainability Assessment based on Multicriteria and Sensitivity Analysis This paper proposes the use of a non-compensatory multicriteria approach combined with sensitivity analysis for constructing composite indicators of sustainability. An illustrative example on Spanish and selected Mediterranean regions is used...
PUBLICATION | 2011 The African Postharvest Losses Information System (APHLIS) This report explains the construction and operation of APHLIS (The African Postharvest Losses Information System), a recent development in PHL estimation that provides the countries of East and Southern Africa...
PUBLICATION | 2011 Rickety numbers: Volatility of university rankings and policy implications The most popular world university rankings are routinely taken at face value by media and social actors. While these rankings are politically influential, they...
PUBLICATION | 2010 Evaluation of Environmental Life Cycle Approaches for Policy and Decision Making Support in Micro and Macro Level Applications The European Commission (EC) has strengthened environmental and sustainability oriented policies and strategies by introducing Life Cycle Thinking. Amongst others, this is a key consideration in the Integrated Product...
PUBLICATION | 2010 Dynamic Mapping of Cropland Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Modis Time Series Mapping cropland areas in a dynamic way is of great interest to successfully monitor agricultural areas and food security. Existing cropland masks are commonly derived from global/continental...
PUBLICATION | 2010 Mapping of the Crop Production System Zones of the IGAD Region Food security monitoring requires effective crop status assessment and yield forecasting methodologies and tools. Such tools need to build on a thorough knowledge of the crop production...
PUBLICATION | 2002 State-of-the Art Report on Current Methodologies and Practices for Composite Indicator Development Composite indicators (composite indicators) have received substantial attention in recent years and various methodologies have been developed to handle different aspects of the issue. This report...
PUBLICATION | 2010 Consumer Decision-Making in Retail Investment Services: A Behavioural Economics Perspective The purpose of this project was to study the decision-making processes of consumers in the market for Retail Investment Services (RIS). The objectives of the study were twofold: to obtain survey and experimental evidence...
PUBLICATION | 2010 Estimating Sub-pixel to Regional Winter Crop Areas using Neural Nets The current work aimed at testing a methodology which can be applied to low spatial resolution satellite data to assess inter-annual crop area variations on sub-pixel...
PUBLICATION | 2010 ELLI-Index: a sound measure for lifelong learning in the EU The European Lifelong Learning Indicators (ELLI) project is an initiative led by the Bertelsmann Foundation, and one of its aims is to develop, test and pilot a new aggregate measure, the ELLI-Index...
