Research on China's Environmental Efficiency with 36 Industries

Abstract

Based on panel data of 36 industries in 2001-2010, this paper has measured the environmental efficiency of China's industry constrained by energy and has compared it with the conventional industrial economic efficiency. The results show that the increase of energy consumption and environmental pollutant emissions offset 47% of the industrial economic efficiency brought about by technological advances. The results also showed a failure of overall state on China's industrial environmental efficiency with less than 10 percent of DEA effective industry limited by energy.

The impact of quality of life on industrial and agricultural production and environmental efficiency in China's provinces

“…While DEA is considered to be the best method for evaluating environmental efficiency (Song et al, 2012), other commonly used models include BCC, CCR, SBM, and EBM. Wang et al (2013) 2021) applied a non-radial DEA adjustment model to evaluate and compare the performance of water companies in the United Kingdom and Wales from an environmental perspective, presenting that the environmental inefficiency of water companies is quite serious. Some scholars have paid attention to the second stage of environmental efficiency-that is, the efficiency of environmental governance.…”

“…While DEA is considered to be the best method for evaluating environmental efficiency (Song et al, 2012), other commonly used models include BCC, CCR, SBM, and EBM. Wang et al (2013) applied the CCR model to calculate environmental efficiency under energy constraints for 36 industries in China from 2001 to 2010. Chen and Jia (2017) used SBM by considering undesired output in order to measure environmental efficiency of different regions in China.…”