Research on Total Factor Productivity and Influential Factors of the Regional Water–Energy–Food Nexus: A Case Study on Inner Mongolia, China

Chen, Junfei; Ding, Tonghui; Wang, Huimin; Xiao-ya, YU

doi:10.3390/ijerph16173051

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“…In addition, the effects of population growth, technological advancement, environmental protection, and policy on the evolution of water-energy-food systems had been considered in the literature [18,19]. The water-energy-food systems can also be studied from the national level to the regional and urban levels [20,21,22].…”

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A Study on the Sustainable Development of Water, Energy, and Food in China

Jin

Chang

et al. 2019

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It is of great significance to deal with the relationship between external factors and the water-energy-food internal system for China’s sustainable development. This paper takes China as the research object, uses the system dynamics method to construct a model for China’s water-energy-food system, and introduces the “two-child” policy and trade friction as the scenario parameters for simulation. The main results of scenario simulation can be summarized as the following three points. In terms of water, the trade friction will hinder China’s industrial water consumption into a low-consumption stage. In terms of energy, both the trade friction and the “two-child” policy, will not change the increasing trend of energy demand. In terms of food, if there is strong response to the “two-child” policy, there will be insufficient food inventory under the current capacity and import ratio. In short, this paper takes the sustainable development of water-energy-food as a starting point and puts forward policy suggestions on the comprehensive formulation of policies.

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A Study on the Sustainable Development of Water, Energy, and Food in China

Jin

Chang

et al. 2019

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“…However, the performance changes across periods could not be well evaluated by this method [20]. Some studies analyze the productivity changes by incorporating the Malmquist-Luenberger productivity indicator (MLPI) [39]. Chen and Golley [40] used a directional distance function and the MLPI to assess green total factor productivity of China's industry.…”

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From Catch‐Up to Transcend: The Development of Emerging Countries’ Green Economy

Lin

Wang

2019

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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As domestic concerns on clean economic growth arise, promoting green economy has become an urgent issue for emerging countries that are facing serious environment problems in industrialization. Through international imitation, emerging countries have the opportunity to adopt clean techniques of developed countries. Because of different industrial structures, it is unachievable to learn the green technology across all fields. Previous studies consider that innovations could create green production models to improve the production capacity that reduces energy input and waste discharge. However, while evaluating emerging countries’ economic growth, the environment indicators were often neglected. Empirical investigation of the role of innovation in green economy’s growth is still rare. The first objective of this study is to adopt an integrated framework to investigate emerging countries’ green economy by considering environmental factors. Secondly, environmentally sensitive productivity growth index was employed to decompose the productivity progress of green economy into catch-up effect, innovation effect, and technical leadership to examine the role of innovation. Thirdly, implications were provided for the policy makers in relation to green growth. Thirty-nine emerging countries were chosen as samples, which were divided into America, Asia, and Europe according to their locations. We found that America is still an imitator in developing green economy. In contrast, Asia starts to transition to innovation, which has become another critical promoter for green growth. Europe was found to lead on the technology frontier because of proper industrial planning and technology accumulation. The progress to innovation and technical leadership could ensure a stable green growth in the future. This research could be a route to open up the possibility of extending current study of green economy.

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“…Xu et al [ 16 ] assessed the coupling and coordination degrees of the core WEF nexus and identified key factors that affect sustainable development. Chen et al [ 17 ] selected Inner Mongolia as a research case, in which a super-efficiency slack based measure model and the Malmquist–Luenberger index was adopted. Both Sahin and Li [ 18 , 19 ] used the method of system dynamics simulation to try to quantitatively study the WEF-Nexus system.…”

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Optimization of Regional Water-Energy-Food Systems Based on Interval Number Multi-Objective Programming: A Case Study of Ordos, China

Chen

Zhou

Lin

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Water, energy, and food are the most important basic resources for economic and social development. In the context of global population growth, environmental degradation, and resource shortages, the interrelationship between the water, energy, and food has become increasingly important. In this paper, the city of Ordos in China was selected as a study area. Firstly, this paper sorted out relevant research literature and fully understood the concept of water-energy-food (WEF) nexus. Then, an optimization model of WEF system was constructed based on interval number multi-objective programming, which took the comprehensive coordination deviation degree of the WEF system security and carbon dioxide emission minimization as the target. At the same time, the optimization model was constructed with full consideration of constraints such as economic benefit, water resource consumption, energy production, food production and environmental pollution emission. The results showed that the production of coal, thermal power, hydropower, wind power, and food all show an upward trend. Among them, the production of hydropower has the largest change, and the food production has the smallest change. In terms of water resource utilization, food production has the largest allocation of water resources accounting for nearly 80%, followed by coal production, thermal power generation and hydropower generation. The smallest allocation is natural gas. In particular, the allocation of water for coal production and hydroelectric power generation has increased significantly. Finally, the policy recommendations were put forward to promote the sustainable development of WEF system in Ordos. The optimization research on the WEF system can help to ensure the WEF system security in Ordos and promote the sustainable development of WEF system, which also can provide reference for other regions.

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Research on Total Factor Productivity and Influential Factors of the Regional Water–Energy–Food Nexus: A Case Study on Inner Mongolia, China

Cited by 24 publications

References 45 publications

A Study on the Sustainable Development of Water, Energy, and Food in China

A Study on the Sustainable Development of Water, Energy, and Food in China

From Catch‐Up to Transcend: The Development of Emerging Countries’ Green Economy

Optimization of Regional Water-Energy-Food Systems Based on Interval Number Multi-Objective Programming: A Case Study of Ordos, China

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