Detail publikace

DEA as a useful tool for assessing the economic efficiency of wastewater treatment plants

TURKOVÁ, J. KORYTÁROVÁ, J.

Originální název

DEA as a useful tool for assessing the economic efficiency of wastewater treatment plants

Typ

článek ve sborníku ve WoS nebo Scopus

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Project of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) should be evaluated in terms of environmental, economic and social sustainability. The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) encourages all European countries to pay attention to the efficient utilization of natural resources and the impacts of human activities on the water. This article was focused on the implementation of an assessment tool for the economic efficiency of WWTPs, which can be employed as supplementary to the traditionally methodologies. Wastewater treatment processes produce desirable outputs (treated water) together with undesirable pollutants, and inputs are related to the cost of the operation and maintenance. The efficiency evaluation was provided through the use of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) across a sample of the WWTPs in the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic. This non-parametric method, which is based on linear programming, divided these functional units into effective and ineffective scores. The obtained results can be of help to managers during the ex-ante decision-making process and also for ex-post evaluation with a focus on factors of success and failure and on the sustainability of results and impacts. Finally, the DEA was successfully used in many previous studies for the calculation of techno-economic efficiency.

Klíčová slova

Data Envelopment Analysis, Efficiency Assessment, Environmental Impact, Sustainability, Wastewater Treatment Plant

Autoři

TURKOVÁ, J.; KORYTÁROVÁ, J.

Vydáno

2. 11. 2016

Nakladatel

STEF92 Technology Ltd.

Místo

Sofia, Bulgaria

ISBN

978-6-1971-0579-7

Kniha

Water Resources. Forest, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems

Edice

16th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2016

Číslo edice

3

ISSN

1314-2704

Periodikum

International multidisciplinary geoconference SGEM

Ročník

3

Stát

Bulharská republika

Strany od

61

Strany do

68

Strany počet

8

URL

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2014479760/1F368C3A1EC04DFDPQ/1?accountid=17115

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT131216,
  author="Jiřina {Vrbková} and Jana {Korytárová}",
  title="DEA as a useful tool for assessing the economic efficiency of wastewater treatment plants",
  booktitle="Water Resources. Forest, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems",
  year="2016",
  series="16th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2016",
  journal="International multidisciplinary geoconference SGEM",
  volume="3",
  number="3",
  pages="61--68",
  publisher="STEF92 Technology Ltd.",
  address="Sofia, Bulgaria",
  doi="10.5593/sgem2016HB33",
  isbn="978-6-1971-0579-7",
  issn="1314-2704",
  url="https://www.proquest.com/docview/2014479760/1F368C3A1EC04DFDPQ/1?accountid=17115"
}