Environmental Performance: Evidence from Level-2 Regions
Environmental Performance: Evidence from Level-2 Regions

Summary/Abstract: The study's objectives are to assess the environmental performance of the NUTS-2 Region from 2009 to 2020 and to provide policy suggestions based on the results. Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques were used in the assessment of environmental performance. The environmental performance criteria used in the assessment are the total electricity consumption per capita, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, the number of water supply enterprises, the urban population, and the amount of wastewater treated by the municipalities. First of all, the weights of the indicators to be used in the evaluation of environmental performance were calculated with the Entropy method, which is one of the MCDM methods. Then, with the help of the ARAS method, the environmental performance ranking of the NUTS-2 Region was obtained. Within the scope of the findings, the environmental performance criterion with the highest weight by the Entropy method is electricity consumption per capita; the lowest is the amount of wastewater treated by the municipalities. With the ARAS method, it was observed that the region with the highest environmental performance was TR10 (Istanbul), while the lowest was TR63 (Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, Osmaniye).

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