Environmental and operational sustainability of airports: Core indicators and stakeholder communication
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to propose and assess a core set of environmental and operational sustainability indicators for airport benchmarking, based on research conducted for a decision support tool designed to support airport environmental and operational sustainability. Seeks to make recommendations on the external use of sustainability indicators in stakeholder communication, based on a separate survey of the way in which UK airports use environmental and sustainability benchmarking reports.
Design/methodology/approach
The indicators are designed to minimise additional data collection demands while reflecting sustainability theory to a practicable extent.
Findings
Bringing core environmental and operational indicators together helps to make their inter‐relationship explicit. The indicators are a minimum set, and their limitations with respect to sustainability are made explicit.
Originality/value
Reports on a survey of the current extent of, and approaches to, stakeholder communication undertaken by airports in the UK, particularly external use of environmental and sustainability benchmarking results.
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Citation
Upham, P.J. and Mills, J.N. (2005), "Environmental and operational sustainability of airports: Core indicators and stakeholder communication", Benchmarking: An International Journal, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 166-179. https://doi.org/10.1108/14635770510593103
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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