Drive cycle pattern is different for different countries which depends on their traffic density, road condition and driver discipline. Drive cycle influences HEV`s components design, sizing and their ratings. Standard drive cycle data doesn't reveal...
Literature stresses that efficient institutions are necessary to achieve the highest returns from public policies. It has been recognized by the European Union (EU) that regional institutions have a fundamental role in obtaining the highest results f...
In many areas of southern Europe, the scarcity of water due to climate change will increase, making its availability for irrigation an even more limiting factor for agriculture. One of the main necessary measures of adaptation of the vineyards in the...
Identifying macroeconomic events that are responsible for dramatic changes of economy is of particular relevance to understanding the overall economic dynamics. We introduce an open-source available efficient Python implementation of a Bayesian multi...
31 March 2019
Environmental–economic efficiency assessment is an effective way to evaluate the degree of coordination between an economy and the environment. Previous studies on environmental–economic efficiency have primarily investigated the efficien...
Regional economic efficiency and resilience are necessary conditions for sustainable regional economic development, and urban agglomerations are the core carriers of regional economic development. Exploring the synergistic patterns between economic e...
Achieving sustainable and efficient economic development involves the pursuit of a model with low input, low emissions, and high yield. One approach to this is by considering input-output efficiency, which has been studied by many previous studies. H...
The goal of farmers operating in a market economy is to maximize profit. In view of the changing political situation, the main social interest, in addition to food security, should be energy security. Here is a refined version of that sentence: This...
Second Law efficiency is a useful parameter for characterizing the energy requirements of a system in relation to the limits of performance prescribed by the Laws of Thermodynamics. However, since energy costs typically represent less than 50% of the...
This study examines whether and through what channels ecological compensation efficiency affects urban economic resilience from a watershed-scale perspective. Using panel data for 108 prefecture-level cities in China’s Yangtze River Economic Be...
The Western Taiwan Strait (WTS) Economic Zone connects the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, playing a significant role in China’s coastal economy and forming part of the East Asian economic structure. This study used panel data fr...
31 March 2022
Industrial transformation and high-quality urban development have become the core issues of urban-rural coordination and the leap forward in development in the new era. The research perspective of ‘pattern-process-mechanism’ is needed to...
Economic activities’ efficiency represents the level of performance that uses the lowest quantity of inputs to achieve the highest possible amount of output. This paper presents the process of calculating the relative efficiency of separate non...
Tourism eco-efficiency (TEE) is a pivotal metric for assessing tourism’s sustainability and the balance between human activities and the environment, significantly influencing regional economic growth (RGDP). This research utilizes a comprehens...
15 March 2023
In the process of comprehensively promoting the construction of a multi-level medical security system in China, it is very important to clarify the impact of commercial health insurance. In order to better promote the development of commercial health...
8 December 2022
In the process of China’s transformation from high-speed to high-quality development, the role of green innovation has gradually begun to receive attention. Using 2163 observations of 687 listed companies from 2016 to 2020, this paper examined...
This study investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty on financing efficiency in China’s high-tech manufacturing industry from static and dynamic perspectives. Using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index, we measur...
Measuring the agricultural production efficiency (APE) and the ecological transformation efficiency (ETE) is key to agricultural modernization and regional ecological civilization construction. Based on the agricultural input–output dataset of...
The reasonable optimization of energy structures and improvement of energy utilization efficiency are the inevitable way to achieve new progress in ecological civilization construction. The Yangtze River Economic Belt, as the leading demonstration ar...
Increasing energy efficiency is commonly viewed as providing a key stimulus to economic growth, through investment in efficient technologies, reducing energy use and costs, enabling productivity gains, and generating jobs. However, this view is recei...
The study of carbon stocks in organic compounds within terrestrial ecosystems allows us to create a pool of potential carbon farming projects. At present, it is essential to assess the economic viability of natural-based solutions in order to develop...
In this paper, we analyze the role of economic policy in prompting energy efficiency. This study reviews three aspects, theoretical, empirical, and existing policies to evaluate the relationship of energy efficiency and economic policy. This study fu...
Crop diversification finds an important place in the strategy of dealing with risk and uncertainty related to climate change. It helps to increase the resilience of farmers, significantly improving their income stability, but at the same time, it can...
The production and life of human beings are inseparable from the natural environment, and the current economic transformation is based on the sustainable development of the environment. However, the current environmental economic transformation lacks...
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Longwall paste backfilling mining is a core sustainable green mining technology for coal resources under buildings, railways and water bodies (BRW), yet its large-scale application is severely restricted by the sequential mining–isolation&ndash...
This study aims to investigate the impact of ICT capital services on economic growth and energy efficiency in China at both national and industrial levels during the period 2000–2020. To achieve this aim, this study introduces a measurement met...
OEnergy efficiency is a vital factor to promote sustainable development. In this paper, the directional distance function–global Malmquist–Luenberger model (DDF-GML) is applied to measure the energy efficiency levels of 30 provinces in China from 200...
Efficiency and resilience are two essential challenges that require attention for high-quality development under the new normal. In this research, we measured tourism eco-efficiency using the Super-SBM model with undesirable output about data from 31...
This study applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the economic sustainability of U.S. airlines by examining labor efficiency as a pivotal component of cost management and long-term sustainability. Focusing on five key employee categories...
Transport is one of the key sectors of the European economy. However, the intensive development of transport caused negative effects in the form of an increase in the emission of harmful substances. The particularly dramatic situation took place in t...
Countries are forced to develop bio-based economic strategies to promote efficient use of renewable natural resources. The transition towards a sustainable forest bio-based economy is associated with resource efficiency optimization, adoption of inno...
This study used a two-stage network data envelopment analysis model to measure the water use efficiency of 108 cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in the initial water use and wastewater treatment phases from 2009 to 2019. We divided the urban...
The growing risk of climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gases poses new challenges to contemporary countries. The development of economies is usually related to increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, the question ar...
Precision agriculture (PA) has emerged as a transformative approach for improving agricultural productivity, resource-use efficiency, and environmental sustainability through the integration of digital technologies, including Global Positioning Syste...
The study deals with the analysis of data from a selected tourism facility and the implementation of a solar system and a rainwater system, which are an alternative to commonly used energy sources. The objective is to evaluate the potential savings f...
The digital economy development promotes green transformation in China’s economy. Based on provincial-level data from 2011–2019, an ArcGIS spatial analysis is used to explore the spatial and temporal evolution patterns of the digital econ...
In recent years, zero-emission technologies in public transport have developed rapidly, particularly in the electrification of bus fleets. Amid global efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and improve urban air quality, the economic viability of electric b...
The Bohai Rim Region plays a crucial role in the economy of northern China. Historically, the area’s development has been driven by resource-intensive industries, necessitating urgent structural transformation. In response, the government has a...
The Austrian school economics and neo-Marxist theories both have been reviving in recent years. However, the current academic discussion lacks a debate between two schools of economics with diametrically opposed views. This paper is the first and an...
In recent years, economic uncertainty has been heightened, including as a result of the economic shocks generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia–Ukraine War, and the unstable international political situation. These had a global impact on...
This paper attempts to measure the carbon emission efficiency of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, which has nine provinces and two cities, by analyzing the panel data of the economic belt from 2010 to 2019. Firstly, we used a three-stage DEA (data en...
We analyze the economic efficiency of the cryptocurrency market after the launch of Bitcoin futures by means of the Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Indexes. Our results show that the introduction of Bitcoin futures did not affect the economic...
Despite the growing relevance of governance and sustainability in port management, there is still limited empirical evidence on how economic, social, and environmental dimensions interact in a non-linear and configurational manner to explain port eco...
This study investigates how geopolitical risk shaped the green economic efficiency (GEE) of 19 countries in the G20 group from 2000 to 2022. Using the Super-SBM model, we construct a cross-country measure of GEE and empirically examine both its deter...
The benefits of energy efficiency are recognized in multiple socio-economic spheres. Still, the quantitative impact on macroeconomic performance is not fully understood, as modeling tools are not thermodynamically consistent—failing to explicit...
The economic farm-size–efficiency relationship for maize remains unclear. A question that has yet to be answered conclusively is whether farm size affects productivity. The debate on land-appropriation-without-compensation ultimately revolves a...
Due to limited land resources, it is necessary to balance urban economic development and efficient land use. Clarifying the relationship between the two is crucial to improving both economic efficiency and land use efficiency. Considering the undesir...
A 3.5 tonne forklift containing proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and lithium-ion batteries was manufactured and tested in a real factory. The work efficiency and economic applicability of the PEMFC forklift were compared with that of a li...
The paper industry is a traditional industry with extensive consumption of resources and energy and more pollutant discharge. This industry is closely related to production and life activities. Under the general requirement of “to step up conservatio...
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