Analysis of the Environmental Efficiency of the Chinese Transportation Sector Using an Undesirable Output  Slacks-Based Measure Data Envelopment Analysis Model

Song, Xiaowei; Hao, Yufan; Zhu, Xiaodong

doi:10.3390/su7079187

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“…factories [4,9,15,19], power plants [6,10,14,18,32], supplier selection [8], regions and cities [7,12,13,16,17,21], and transportation [33]. Particularly, unlike previous studies, we present a generalized way to evaluate any condition with regard to the different levels of environmental pressures or environmental concerns.…”

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Eco-Efficiency Evaluation Considering Environmental Stringency

Lee

Park

2017

Sustainability

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This paper proposes an extended data envelopment analysis (DEA) model for deriving eco-efficiency. In order to derive eco-efficiency, the proposed model utilizes the concepts of operational efficiency and environmental efficiency. Since DEA can separately measure operational efficiency and environmental efficiency, the treatment for constructing the unified indicator is required to ultimately evaluate eco-efficiency through balancing operational and environmental concerns. To achieve this goal, we define the environmental stringency as the business condition reflecting the degree of enforcing environmental regulations across the firms or particular industries in different countries. The proposed model provides flexibility, as required by the pollution-intensity of industry, in that it allows the decision maker to evaluate DMU's (decision-making unit) eco-efficiency appropriately depending on the business environment. We present a case of agricultural production systems to help readers understand what eco-efficiency becomes when we vary the stringency conditions. Through the illustrative example, this paper presents the potential application by which different environmental stringencies can successively be incorporated in DEA.

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Eco-Efficiency Evaluation Considering Environmental Stringency

Lee

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2017

Sustainability

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“…Modelos de efi ciência ambiental têm sido sustentados pelo quadro teórico da fronteira de possibilidades de produção (FPP), visto que ele permite a inclusão de recursos naturais e da poluição (bem não desejável) na função de produção Tyteca, 1996;Chiu et al, 2012;Song;Hao;Zhu, 2015).…”

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Emissões de gases de efeito estufa e eficiência ambiental no Brasil

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Cunha

2019

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Resumo Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a eficiência ambiental dos municípios brasileiros e relacioná-la a um conjunto de características socioeconômicas locais, controlando aspectos como heterogeneidade tecnológica e dependência espacial. Para tanto, utilizou-se o método de Análise Envoltória de Dados (DEA) Metafrontier para construir o indicador, que foi baseado nas emissões de gases de efeito estufa. Em seguida, ajustou-se um modelo que relaciona eficiência ambiental, características socioeconômicas e dependência espacial (Spatial Autoregressive Model). Os principais resultados revelaram que renda per capita e IDH se relacionaram positivamente com o indicador de eficiência. Por outro lado, as variáveis desigualdade e educação mostraram relação negativa com o índice. Ademais, houve evidências de efeito “spillover ambiental” entre municípios, indicando que a criação de práticas sustentáveis em âmbito local pode produzir externalidades positivas regionalmente.

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“…Therefore, they applied carbon emission into the efficiency evaluation model as a "bad output" to construct undesirable SBM model. At present, the undesirable SBM model was widely used in the study about the performance evaluation of carbon emission [18][19][20][21][22]. There were also many research took attention to China's provincial carbon emission efficiency, the basic conclusion was that China's provincial carbon performance were differences, and showed gradually rising space trend from the west to the east areas at present [23,24].…”

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Efficiency Allocation of Provincial Carbon Reduction Target in China’s “13·5” Period: Based on Zero-Sum-Gains SBM Model

2017

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Firstly, we introduce the "Zero Sum Gains" game theory into the SBM (Slacks-based Measure) model, and establish the ZSG-SBM model. Then, set up 4 development scenarios for the China's economic system in "13·5" (The Chinese government formulates a Five-Year Planning for national economic and social development every five years, "13·5" means 2016 to 2020.) period through two dimensions as economic growth and energy consumption structure, and make the efficient allocation in provincial level of carbon reduction target by using the above ZSG-SBM model based on the China's overall carbon reduction constraint (18%) which is set in "13·5" planning. Finally, we analyze the provincial development path of low-carbon economy by comparing the economic development status with the allocated result of carbon reduction target. Results show that: After the ZSG-SBM model being applied to the efficiency allocation of carbon emission, the input and output indicators of the 30 provinces realize the effective allocation, and the carbon emission efficiency reaches the efficiency frontier. The equity-oriented administrative allocation scheme of government will bring about efficiency loss in a certain degree, and the efficiency allocation scheme, based on the ZSG-SBM model, fits better with the long-term development requirement of low-carbon economy. On the basis of carbon intensity constraint, the re-constraint of energy intensity will force the provinces to optimize their energy consumption structure, thereby enhancing the overall carbon emission efficiency of China. Sixteen provinces' allocation results of carbon reduction target are above China's average (18%) in "13·5" period, all the provinces should select appropriate development path of low-carbon economy according to the status of their resource endowment, economic level, industrial structure and energy consumption structure.

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Analysis of the Environmental Efficiency of the Chinese Transportation Sector Using an Undesirable Output Slacks-Based Measure Data Envelopment Analysis Model

Cited by 44 publications

References 38 publications

Eco-Efficiency Evaluation Considering Environmental Stringency

Eco-Efficiency Evaluation Considering Environmental Stringency

Emissões de gases de efeito estufa e eficiência ambiental no Brasil

Efficiency Allocation of Provincial Carbon Reduction Target in China’s “13·5” Period: Based on Zero-Sum-Gains SBM Model

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