University of Tehran/Springer International Journal of Environmental Research 1735-6865 8 4 2014 10 01 A Review on the main Countries’ Environmental Rankings 1279 1286 820 10.22059/ijer.2014.820 EN J.A. Mondejar-Jimenez University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain J.L. Alfaro-Navarro University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain E. Andrés-Martínez University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain Journal Article 2014 10 13 A lot of people think that the economic development of a country is associated with its Gross<br />Domestic Product (GDP), but GDP does not consider aspects as important as the environmental performance<br />of a country. Nowadays, environmental issues are one of the most important aspects of the long term<br />development of a country and play an important role in a nation’s wealth. Although the analysis of countries’<br />environmental performance is a very novel subject, many researchers are making a significant effort to capture<br />its essence by testing the sustainability of regions. This paper discusses the main proposals developed in the<br />literature that establish country rankings considering different dimensions in order to measure the sustainability<br />or environment. This summary allows us to establish the main differences between proposals and some future<br />research. Furthermore, we analyse the correlation and concordance between the different countries rankings<br />established in the literature. The results reveal clear concordance between proposals. https://ijer.ut.ac.ir/article_820_f0b591dbc483fc588ac5dd0a4156f626.pdf