Environmental efficiency and technological readiness: An evidence from EU-28

• CLAUDIA GARCÍA GARCÍA ^[1] ; CATALINA B. GARCÍA GARCÍA ^[1] ; Román Salmerón Gómez ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Granada

     Universidad de Granada

     Granada, España

     
• Localización: Estudios de economía aplicada, ISSN 1133-3197, ISSN-e 1697-5731, Vol. 37, Nº 1, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Turismo, movilidad y desarrollo sostenible), págs. 24-34
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.25115/eea.v37i1.2576
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Eficiencia medioambiental y disponibilidad o disposición tecnológica: Una evidencia de la UE
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  • español

    En la actualidad, el concepto de desarrollo sostenible es un pilar fundamental y un importante reto para el crecimiento y el progreso en los países desarrollados. Este concepto puede definirse como el tipo de desarrollo que cubre las necesidades del presente sin comprometer las necesidades de las generaciones futuras. Por otra parte, para el World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), la eficiencia medioambiental vendría determinada por un conjunto de actividades que satisfacen las necesidades humanas y que otorgan calidad de vida al mismo tiempo que consiguen minimizar el impacto medioambiental progresivamente. Por tanto, con estas dos definiciones, está claro que la eficiencia medioambiental es una variable clave para el desarrollo sostenible, pero ¿hay alguna variable que esté influyendo directamente en este tipo de eficiencia? Con este trabajo se ha descubierto que la disponibilidad o disposición tecnológica se trata de un factor influyente en la eficiencia medioambiental. Para la UE, la eficiencia medioambiental está relacionada con la disposición tecnológica de manera que la disponibilidad tecnológica explica parte de la eficiencia medioambiental pero no se trata de un factor determinante. En otras palabras, un alto índice de disposición tecnológica implica un score de eficiencia alto, pero no viceversa. Se usará la metodología Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) para obtener los scores de eficiencia, y para el índice de disponibilidad tecnológica se usará el desarrollado por The World Economic Forum. Una vez los datos sobre eficiencia medioambiental hayan sido obtenidos, se aplica un modelo de regresión para profundizar en el estudio esta relación, eficiencia medioambiental y disponibilidad o disposición tecnológica.

  • English

    Nowadays, the concept of sustainable development is a fundamental pillar and an important challenge for growth and progress for developed countries. For the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the environmental efficiency can be determined as the set of activities that satisfies the human requirements and that provides quality of life at the same time the environmental impacts are minimized progressively. It is clear that the environmental efficiency is a key variable for the sustainable development, but there is any variable influencing directly this efficiency? In this work it has been found that the technological readiness is an important factor influencing the environmental efficiency. For EU, the environmental efficiency is related to technology so that the technological readiness explains part of environmental efficiency but it is not a determinant factor. This means, a high technological readiness index implies a high efficiency scores but not viceversa. It will be used the Data Envelopment Analysis methodology to obtain the efficiency scores, and the technological readiness index developed by The World Economic Forum. Once the data are obtained, a regression model is applied to further study the relation between both.

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