Eco-efficiency, eco-technology innovation and eco-well-being performance to improve global sustainable development

Zhang, Yu; Mao, Yanying; Jiao, Liudan; Shuai, Chenyang; Zhang, Heshan

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106580

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“…Lastly, the human development index (HDI) is the main output, HDI covers the life expectancy, literature rate, and gross domestic product. Zhang et al ( 55 ) argue that economic efficiency and HDI have a significant relationship. A higher HDI value indicates that an economy is efficient, while the lower value of HDI represents the in-efficiency of an economy.…”

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Nexus Between Economic Efficiency, Healthcare, and Environmental Expenditures: A Perspective of BRI Countries

Hussain

Miao

Zhao

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Public health and the environment are the most essential pillars, and play a vital role in the economy. In order to better public health, the economic and environmental atmosphere must be stable and clean, respectively. Thus, this paper emphasizes on nexus between economic, public health, and the environment. Therefore, the objective of this paper is whether healthcare and environmental expenditures affect economic efficiency and vice versa. So, this study evaluates the performance of the country's economic efficiency and investigates the effect of healthcare and environmental expenditures for 62 Belt and Road Initiative countries for the period from 1996 to 2020. Suitable input-output variables are employed under the framework of DEA-window and Malmquist Index Productivity, and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). In addition, this study estimates the relationship between economic efficiency, healthcare, and environmental expenditures by fixed and random effects models. Therefore, the analytical outcomes reveal that countries are economically efficient. On the contrary, SFA estimation concludes that countries are found to be inefficient, because higher variation is exists in efficiency change compared to technological efficiency change and total factor productivity change on average. In addition, it is worth notable that healthcare and environmental expenditures improve the country's economic efficiency. Furthermore, public health is also influenced by economic efficiency. Thus, this study suggests that countries should better utilize given resources and invest a specific portion of national income in order to improve economic efficiency.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nexus Between Economic Efficiency, Healthcare, and Environmental Expenditures: A Perspective of BRI Countries

Hussain

Miao

Zhao

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…Those ratios are 71% (CBG_71), 90% (CBG_90), and 98% (CBG_98). This varying of the steel recycling ratios has been considered in order to reflect differences between countries reusing materials, because in developing countries, policies that consider reuse are lower [ 56 ].…”

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Comparative Life Cycle Analysis of Concrete and Composite Bridges Varying Steel Recycling Ratio

Martí

Piqueras

2021

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Achieving sustainability is currently one of the main objectives, so a consensus between different environmental, social, and economic aspects is necessary. The construction sector is one of the main sectors responsible for environmental impacts worldwide. This paper proposes the life cycle assessment (LCA) and comparison of four bridge deck alternatives for different span lengths to determine which ones are the most sustainable solutions. The ReCiPe method is used to conduct the life cycle analysis, by means of which the impact value is obtained for every alternative and span length. The Ecoinvent 3.3 database has been used. The life cycle has been divided into four phases: manufacturing, construction, use and maintenance, and end of life. The associated uncertainties are considered, and the results are shown in both midpoint and endpoint approaches. The results of our research show that for span lengths less than 17 m, the best alternative is the prestressed concrete solid slab. For span lengths between 17 and 25 m, since the box-girder solution is not used, then the prestressed concrete lightened slab is the best alternative. For span lengths between 25 and 40 m, the best solution depends on the percentage of recycled structural steel. If this percentage is greater than 90%, then the best alternative is the composite box-girder bridge deck. However, if the percentage is lower, the cleanest alternative is the prestressed concrete box-girder deck. Therefore, the results show the importance of recycling and reusing structural steel in bridge deck designs.

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“…Moreover, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Multi Criteria Decision Making Methods (MCDM) are the most commonly used methods in recent years. DEA is a non-parametric method that concentrates on evaluating decision-making units’ efficiency [ 43 , 44 ], and MCDM emphasizes the comprehensive rankness of objectives [ 45 ]. As one method of the MCDM, TOPSIS makes full use of objective data and outputs the evaluation conditions with accurate numerical values, which adapts to the research aim of this study.…”

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Sustainable Development of Urban Metro System: Perspective of Coordination between Supply and Demand

Zhu

Jiao

Zhang

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Metro systems are gradually becoming more and more crucial in promoting the economy and society in cities. However, various challenges such as financial resources and the efficiency of utilizing these metro plans bring difficulties for metro construction. Hence, accurately evaluating the urban metro system’s development condition seems significant for the sustainable development of the urban metro system. Therefore, a comprehensive evaluation indicator system of metro development conditions containing 25 indicators from dimensions of demand and supply is established in this study, and a coupling coordination degree model combined with the entropy weight method and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method is proposed to analyze the level of metro development conditions and coupling coordination conditions of 35 cities in China. According to the calculation results, 35 cities are divided into six categories, and radar charts are constructed to promote the sustainable development of the metro system.

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Eco-efficiency, eco-technology innovation and eco-well-being performance to improve global sustainable development

Cited by 94 publications

References 40 publications

Nexus Between Economic Efficiency, Healthcare, and Environmental Expenditures: A Perspective of BRI Countries

Nexus Between Economic Efficiency, Healthcare, and Environmental Expenditures: A Perspective of BRI Countries

Comparative Life Cycle Analysis of Concrete and Composite Bridges Varying Steel Recycling Ratio

Sustainable Development of Urban Metro System: Perspective of Coordination between Supply and Demand

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