Kim Samuel-Johnson’s scientific contributions

... A multitude of ES-related indices appears in the relevant literature and the Web (the interested reader is referred to Tambouratzis (2016) for a representative list), with most of them focusing upon the three pillars -economic, environmental and social -of ES (Elkington, 1994). In this piece of research, the environmental sustainability index (ESI) 2002(Samuel-Johnson, Esty, Levy et al., 2002 is used for guiding any interested country -either participating or with data that is consistent with that of the participating countries -towards the attainment of maximal ES. The specific index has been selected as it constitutes the first complete version of the ESI, a methodology that has become a landmark of ES-related indices and continues to be updated and published biennially to this day in the form of the environmental performance index (EPI, Hsu & Zomer, 2016). ...

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The Efficient and Viable Country-Oriented Attainment of Absolute Environmental Sustainability: A Demonstration on the ESI 2002