Eco-efficiency of the world cement industry: A data envelopment analysis

Oggioni, Giorgia; Riccardi, Rossana; Toninelli, R.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2011.02.057

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“…To date, the applications of eco-efficiency have included products (Cerutti et al, 2013;Quariguasi-Frota-Neto and Bloemhof-Ruwaard, 2012), enterprises (Fernández-Viñé et al, 2013;Hahn et al, 2010) and industry sections (Oggioni et al, 2011;Wang et al, 2011). It was recently extended to a regional scale (Kielenniva et al, 2012;Yu et al, 2013) in an attempt to develop the potential of individual regions.…”

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“…Recently, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) model has played an important role for eco-efficiency analysis, based on its specific advantages (Wu, 2006). It is now widely applied on different scales (Picazo-Tadeo et al, 2011;Oggioni et al, 2011;Iribarren et al, 2011), especially for systems with multiple inputs and outputs in different dimensions.…”

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

Yin

Wang

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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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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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“…Mahlberg and Sahoo [51] found labor is one of the most important inputs, and considered the social indicator (labor) for eco-efficiency analysis of the 22 OECD countries. Some other studies also selected labor as an input indicator to measure eco-efficiency [6,14,54,58,59]. In addition to the above studies, the number of employees was selected as one of the inputs for the analysis of the operational and environmental assessment of Japanese electric power companies [60].…”

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

Gao

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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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“…Literature in DEA refers to bad outputs as undesirable factors (Seiford and Zhu, 2002). One can find a number of undesirable output examples in the empirical literature such as delayed flight (Coli et al, 2011), poverty rate (Bruni et al, 2011), patient deaths (Yawe and Kavuma, 2008), power interruptions and emissions such as SOx (Burnett and Hansen, 2008;Korhonen and Luptacik, 2004;Zhou et al, 2007), SO2, NOx and CO2 (Kortelainen and Kuosmanen, 2007;Sueyoshi and Goto, 2013;Tyteca, 1997), NOx (Oggioni et al, 2011;Tyteca, 1996) COx gases (Oude Lansink and Bezlepkin, 2003;Zaim and Taskin, 2000).…”

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A new slacks-based measure of Malmquist–Luenberger index in the presence of undesirable outputs

Arabi

Munisamy

Emrouznejad

2015

Omega

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Eco-efficiency of the world cement industry: A data envelopment analysis

Cited by 169 publications

References 21 publications

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

A new slacks-based measure of Malmquist–Luenberger index in the presence of undesirable outputs

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