A Study of Forest Carbon Sink Increment from the Perspective of Efficiency Evaluation Based on an Inverse DEA Model

Abstract

Forest carbon sink efficiency refers to the efficiency of input-output indicators related to carbon sinks. This paper studies carbon sink efficiency from the perspective of resource allocation; guides the optimal allocation of resources; and selects forestry employees, forestry investment amount and afforestation area as input indicators; the forest carbon sink efficiency in China is calculated and analyzed based on a data envelopment analysis model by converting the forest volume into the forest carbon sink through the volume expansion factor method. The grey prediction model is used to estimate the change in the input indicator, and the production possibility set is constructed with the input indicator before and after the change and the current output indicator. The efficiency of the decision units before the change is calculated, and through the comparison of efficiency, the conditions of forest carbon sink increase in 15 provinces are obtained. The optimal allocation of the output indicator is calculated based on the inverse data envelopment analysis model. The largest increase in forestry carbon sink is 169,362 megatons in Guangdong, and the smallest is 619 megatons in Tianjin. Finally, some suggestions for the path of forest carbon sink increment are put forward.

Sustainable Management of Land Resources: The Case of China’s Forestry Carbon Sink Mechanism

“…In the second category, the main focus is on the measurement of the productivity of forestry carbon sinks and carbon storage. The common measures are the Slacks-Based Mea-sure (SBM) method [32], the DEA model [33], and the Malmquist-Luenberger index [34]. In addition, many researchers have furthered the analysis and discussion based on the measurement results.…”