Eco-efficiency in contaminated land management in Finland – Barriers and development needs

Sorvari, Jaana; Antikainen, Riina; Kosola, Marja Leena; Hokkanen, Pekka; Haavisto, Teija

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.11.002

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“…Eco-efficiency can also be understood as a wider concept including socio-cultural aspects (Sorvari et al, 2009). There are few suitable indicators that can be quantitatively measured in the social dimension for eco-efficiency analysis.…”

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Using eco-efficiency as an indicator for sustainable urban development: A case study of Chinese provincial capital cities

Yin

Wang

et al. 2014

Ecological Indicators

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a b s t r a c tUrbanisation in China has resulted in an increased consumption of resources, energy and materials and led to negative environmental effects. All of these factors have motivated the widely discussed topic of urban sustainable development in China. The core of this discussion is how to quantitatively measure urban sustainable development. This research uses eco-efficiency as an indicator to measure urban sustainable development. A data envelopment analysis model was applied to eco-efficiency analysis using environmental pollution as an undesirable output, and a super-efficiency model was modified for ranking. Using real datum for 30 Chinese provincial capital cities, an empirical study was employed to describe their eco-efficiency. The results show that: almost half of the cities are fairly eco-efficient. The inefficient cities are mainly located in the southwest and northwest of China, which are the undeveloped economic zones, while some of the eco-efficient cities have more environmental pollution and consume more land, energy and water. When ranking cities using a modified model, it was found that Haikou, Fuzhou and Beijing were the top three most eco-efficient cities, while Yinchuan, Lanzhou, Guiyang were the bottom three. When exploring the driving force of eco-efficiency, this paper proposes changing the GDP-oriented growth model and appraisal system, continuously transforming and upgrading the industrial structure and stopping the migration of heavy industry from east to west, south to north and city to countryside.

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Section: The Indicatorsmentioning

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Using eco-efficiency as an indicator for sustainable urban development: A case study of Chinese provincial capital cities

Yin

Wang

et al. 2014

Ecological Indicators

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“…Sorvari et al [56] indicated eco-efficiency can also be understood as a wider notion including social and cultural aspects. Mickwitz et al [46] presented the social and cultural indicator "safety" (which is measured by the development of certain crimes, the number of violent crime and the number of traffic accidents).…”

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An Improved Eco-Efficiency Analysis Framework Based on Slacks-Based Measure Method

Gao

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The level of sustainable development can be measured by eco-efficiency, which is a combination of economic and ecological performance. Utilizing the weighted sum of the improved proportions of the indicators as the objective function, this paper develops a proportional slacks-based measure model to assess eco-efficiency, in which the conventional inputs, and desirable and undesirable outputs are improved to different proportions along the elements of a given directional vector. Moreover, this paper presents a weighted proportional slacks-based measure model using the ranges as the divisors instead of the input and output values in the objective function. Finally, this paper presents an empirical analysis by applying proposed measure models with the data of 30 provinces in China in 2015. The empirical study results indicate the developed slacks-based measure models can be used in the assessment of eco-efficiency effectively and reasonably.

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“…Landfill taxation is making this option more expensive, and a range of other treatment technologies has flourished. Some initial work on eco-efficiency of remedial technologies has been done by Sorvari et al (2009) (Table 3). Table 3.…”

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Risk Assessment and Management of Terrestrial Ecosystems Exposed to Petroleum Contamination

Kuyukina¹,

Ившина²,

Makarov³

et al. 2012

Environmental Contamination

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Eco-efficiency in contaminated land management in Finland – Barriers and development needs

Cited by 34 publications

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Using eco-efficiency as an indicator for sustainable urban development: A case study of Chinese provincial capital cities

Using eco-efficiency as an indicator for sustainable urban development: A case study of Chinese provincial capital cities

An Improved Eco-Efficiency Analysis Framework Based on Slacks-Based Measure Method

Risk Assessment and Management of Terrestrial Ecosystems Exposed to Petroleum Contamination

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