The purpose of our research is to design a new data structure for the evaluation of the environmental business progress and its origins. This new data structure needs to fulfill several conditions: data should be measurable, deep a track of the relationship between environmental pressures and environmental business responses, be multidimensional, and be independent of the socio-economic-ecological context. We build a double classification of environmental business actions and ecological effects points. It is called the Enterprise-Environment Connections Diagram. Three relations serve as accounting rules to link the environmental actions classification to origins, i.e. union, inclusion and identity relations. The data structure is a contingency table with environmental actions in lines and origins in columns. Some preliminary validity tests with data from the Wallon region of Belgium are passed.
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