TY - JOUR

T1 - Environmental and operational sustainability of airports

T2 - Core indicators and stakeholder communication

AU - Upham, Paul J.

AU - Mills, Julia N.

PY - 2005/4/1

Y1 - 2005/4/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Airports

KW - Communication

KW - Economic sustainability

KW - United Kingdom

KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/0ef94a32-ba35-39c7-91dd-ae31e9919884/

U2 - 10.1108/14635770510593103

DO - 10.1108/14635770510593103

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:17744392194

VL - 12

SP - 166

EP - 179

JO - Benchmarking: An International Journal

JF - Benchmarking: An International Journal

SN - 1463-5771

IS - 2

ER -