Sustainability Assessment of the Natural Gas Industry in China Using Principal Component Analysis

Dong, Xiucheng; Guo, Jie; Höök, Mikael; Pi, Guanglin

doi:10.3390/su7056102

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“…Vulnerability research, as a new paradigm of sustainable development, uncertainty and risk, sheds light on how to best analyze the uncertainty of innovation capability. As an innovative method, SPA focuses on uncertainty and is widely applied in the economic and social fields [11,12,18,26,[111][112][113][114], and is combined with some common comprehensive methods, such as E-SPA and P-SPA [44,[100][101][102]. Innovation capability is an important driver of economic development and is closely linked to uncertainty and risk.…”

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A New Systematic Approach to Vulnerability Assessment of Innovation Capability of Construction Enterprises

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Abstract:The purpose of this research is to study the vulnerability of construction enterprises' innovation capabilities (CEIC) and their respective primary influencing factors. This paper proposed a vulnerability system framework of CEIC, designed two comprehensive assessments for analysis, namely the entropy and set pair analysis method (E-SPA) and the principle cluster analysis and SPA method (P-SPA), and compared grades to verify the vulnerability assessments. Further, the paper quantitatively assessed the major influencing factors in facilitating management, reducing vulnerability, and improving the ability of construction enterprises to respond to changes in the construction industry. The results showed that vulnerability could be effectively and systematically evaluated using E-SPA. However, managing or reducing entrepreneurial sensitivity and improving the ability to respond was critical to supporting sustainable CEIC. The case studies included in this paper suggested that in ensuring sustainable CEIC, companies should concentrate on highly educated human resources, R&D investments, intellectual property related innovations, and government support. This research provided a practical framework and established a sustainable strategy for companies to manage their vulnerability in developing innovation capability. In addition, this research presented an innovative and effective way to quantitatively analyze vulnerability which offered a foundation to signify a new paradigm shift in construction sustainable development.

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A New Systematic Approach to Vulnerability Assessment of Innovation Capability of Construction Enterprises

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“…(3) The basic link of STBI is to generate random numbers characterized by a probability among the numerical intervals corresponding to the original evaluation information, which can preserve the original evaluation information to the utmost and avoid information loss during the transformation. At the same time, TOPSIS can also make full use of the existing information [32]. Therefore, the hybrid technique of STBI and TOPSIS can deal with the CE problems with complex and blended evaluation information efficiently and overcome a major shortcoming of existing approaches that lose or distort the original preference information in the calculating process, which can also be applied to many other fields.…”

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“…The most frequently used methods are analytic hierarchy process(AHP), analytic network process(ANP), Delphi method, the entropy method, grey relational analysis, the factor analysis, principal component analysis(PCA) and the technique for order preference by similar to ideal solution (TOPSIS) [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33], among which, the former three are subjective methods, which determine the weight coefficient of each indicator by comprehensive consulting score and thus reflect the consultancy to the fullest and the rest are objective methods, which determines the weight of each indicator based on internal relationship and variation degree among indicators. However, through reviewing the related literature, it can be seen that these methods have only been employed to deal with comprehensive evaluation (CE) problems with a single type or certain types of evaluation data, such as linguistic information or real numbers.…”

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Evaluating the Comprehensive Benefit of Group-Affiliated New Energy Power Generation Enterprises for Sustainability: Based on a Combined Technique of STBI and TOPSIS

Yang

Liu

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:As an efficient way to deal with the exhaustion of traditional fossil fuels, new energy power generation has obtained much attention from the Chinese Government. In this context, more and more new energy power generation groups that consist of large numbers of regional enterprises have been founded and developed rapidly. However, researches related to comprehensive benefit evaluation of group-affiliated new energy power generation enterprises is still blank in China, which will hinder the benefit growth and sustainable development of such enterprises. A novel hybrid evaluation indicator system is proposed from both perspectives of sustainability and the internal management within the groups. Considering the preference information given on each of the indicators is featured by multi-source and multi-form, an evaluation framework to integrate the blended and complex evaluation information is designed. In addition, different from previous studies, this paper employs a combined technique of Stochastic Transformation for Blended Information (STBI) method and the Technique for Order Preference by Similar to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to simulate the evaluation process and rank the comprehensive benefit of evaluation objects. It can efficiently handle the comprehensive evaluation problems with blended and complex evaluation information and preserve the initial evaluation information to the utmost simultaneously. Finally, this paper applied the evaluation model to empirical research and the results show that the model meets the actual situation of the new energy power generation group and can provide a certain reference value.

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“…Dong et al [26] assessed sustainability of the natural gas industry in China using principal component analysis. Liu et al [27] analyzed the industrial carbon footprint calculation of woolen yarn.…”

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Analysis of the Relationship between China’s IPPU CO2 Emissions and the Industrial Economic Growth

Duan

2016

Sustainability

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According to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (IPCC 2006) and based on the production technology and products, this paper has calculated CO 2 emissions from industrial processes and product use (IPPU), which involves the individual and the summation of five major IPUU CO 2 emissions industrial departments. As there is a classic environmental Kuznets curve between IPPU CO 2 emissions and the economy, this paper discusses the relationship based on the calculation results and the actual situation. The results show that the overall emission level is indeed rising yearly, and that steel and iron alloy manufacturing and nonmetal manufacturing occupy about 80% of the total emissions. The IPPU CO 2 emissions and the corresponding gross industrial output value do not present a classic Kuznets curve in most industrial sectors due to the increasing industrial employed population. The year 2002 appears to be the boundary instead, where prior to 2002, there is a relatively stable function-type growth curve and after 2002, gross industrial output value (GIOV) per employed person remained within a certain interval while IPPU CO 2 emissions per employed dipped slightly then increased again. Some, but not all, industrial departments and the combined emissions of per employed person reached maximum values in 2012.

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Sustainability Assessment of the Natural Gas Industry in China Using Principal Component Analysis

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

A New Systematic Approach to Vulnerability Assessment of Innovation Capability of Construction Enterprises

A New Systematic Approach to Vulnerability Assessment of Innovation Capability of Construction Enterprises

Evaluating the Comprehensive Benefit of Group-Affiliated New Energy Power Generation Enterprises for Sustainability: Based on a Combined Technique of STBI and TOPSIS

Analysis of the Relationship between China’s IPPU CO2 Emissions and the Industrial Economic Growth

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