More attention needs to be paid to efficiency in the use of forested land. This article is devoted to the study of forested land use efficiency (FLUE) and its spatiotemporal differences in China during the period from 1999 to 2010. The global general...
Tourism eco-efficiency is an essential indicator to measure the level of green and sustainable development of tourism. Based on the data of nine provinces in the Yellow River Basin, from 2011 to 2020, this article estimates the changes in tourism eco...
This study examines change in operational efficiency and productivity across a balanced panel of 15 container ports for the years 2019 and 2020. Berth length, gantry cranes, and other cranes are inputs; high container throughput is desirable, and ext...
The Yellow River Basin is an important energy base of China, and its green development is crucial to Chinese economic transformation. In this paper, we calculate the green total factor productivity (GTFP) to measure the green development level of the...
Improving green productivity is an important way to achieve sustainable development. In this paper, we use the Global Malmquist-Luenberger (GML) index to measure and decompose the green productivity growth of 18 cities in Xinjiang over 2000–2015. Fur...
As the global shift toward green and low-carbon development deepens, green investment has become a core component driving sustainable economic growth. This study addresses a key gap in the literature by systematically exploring how corporate green tr...
Accelerating the “double carbon” transformation of the manufacturing industry is the key to achieving the strategic goal of “double carbon” in China, among which the low-carbon development of the Beijing manufacturing industry...
This study evaluates China’s civil aviation total factor productivity (TFP) in 2000–2021, treating carbon emissions as undesirable output via the Global Malmquist–Luenberger (GML) index, with a modified carbon emission estimation co...
Improving carbon emission performance (CEP) is the key to realizing the goal of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality” for China. Using a panel dataset of 282 cities at prefecture level and above in China from 2003 to 2017, this study emp...
Conventional agricultural productivity assessments that exclude carbon emissions may provide an incomplete representation of environmental performance, particularly when production technologies differ across regions. This study examines how excluding...
Population mobility and the expansion of construction land in industrial development promote urbanization, and the sustainable development of cities creates requirements for the green transformation of industry. This paper uses the directional distan...
The transportation industry is a high carbon emission industry, and China has also put forward strict requirements for the transportation industry to achieve carbon emission reduction. By measuring the total factor carbon emission efficiency of the t...
The exploration of regional variations in coal flow efficiency (CFE) in China and the collaborative strategies for emission reduction are vital for accelerating the progress of ecological civilization within the coal industry and achieving an optimal...
Mariculture areas are an important non-renewable natural resource and continuously improving their efficiency is important for increasing mariculture output and adjusting its structure. The aim of this study was to measure the mariculture area produc...
10 January 2022
The Paris agreement is a unified arrangement for the global response to climate change and entered into force on 4 November 2016. Its long-term goal is to hold the global average temperature rise well below 2 °C. China is committed to achieving c...
In the context of promoting sustainable and low-carbon agricultural development, this study investigates the effects of rural labor migration (RLM) on agricultural ecological efficiency from the perspective of green total factor productivity (GTFP)....
The carbon emissions and agricultural nonpoint source pollution constraints were incorporated into the input–output index system, and the epsilon-based measure (EBM) super efficiency model and global Malmquist–Luenberger (GML) index were...
Previous research on agricultural productivity in Africa has focused on conventional Total Factor productivity (TFP) growth rather than Green Total factor productivity (GATFP) growth, thus ignoring the effect of undesirable outputs such as emissions....
7 December 2021
Understanding green innovation efficiency (GIE) is crucial in assessing achievements of the current development strategy scientifically. Existing literature on measuring green innovation efficiency with considering environmental undesirable outputs a...
Municipal wastewater systems are increasingly expected to support sustainable urban water management by improving pollutant removal while limiting carbon burdens, yet the plant–network structure behind system performance remains insufficiently...
As the climate problem is getting more and more serious and the “low-carbon revolution” of globalization is emerging, the logistics industry, as a high-end service industry, must also take the road of low-carbon development. Improving log...
The digital economy has emerged as a transformative force, creating new opportunities for sustainable development, especially within the marine fisheries sector. This study examines the impact of the digital economy on the green total factor producti...
Existing research lacks a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the digital economy (DE)’s impact on the low-carbon transformation of resource-based cities. This study utilizes panel data from 114 of these cities in China from 2006 to 2019 t...
19 October 2022
In the face of resource and environmental problems caused by extensive economic development, China has put forward a green development strategy. Scientific measurement and analysis of green total factor productivity (GTFP) is of great significance fo...
14 September 2022
Gansu Province is rich in tourism resources, and it is the hometown of the “copper galloping horse”, which is the logo of China’s tourism. However, the scale and revenues of tourism in Gansu province are still at a low level. This p...
The high-quality development (HQD) of resource-based cities (RBCs) is the premise on which to ensure the healthy, stable, and sustainable development of China’s economy. In this study, we use the global Malmquist–Luenberger index based on...
The improvement of port cluster eco-efficiency is of great significance to constructing a world-class shipping hub and the high-quality development of regional economy. This study adopts the Super-EBM (Super-efficiency Epsilon-Based Measure) model to...
This paper employs directional distance function (DDF) and the global Malmquist–Luenberger (GML) productivity index to measure the green total factor productivity (GTFP) growth of China’s 36 industrial sectors from 2000 to 2014. Based on this, this p...
19 February 2022
The digital economy is an important engine to promote sustainable economic growth. Exploring the mechanism by which the digital economy promotes economic development, industrial upgrading and environmental improvement is an issue worth studying. This...
26 June 2022
Based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, this paper examines whether rural broadband adoption affects agricultural carbon reduction efficiency (ACRE), using panel data from 30 Chinese provinces from 2011 to 2019. This paper achieves...
The scientific evaluation of ecological total factor productivity of cultivated land use (ETFPCLU) is fundamental for advancing sustainable utilization of cultivated land resources and safeguarding national food security and ecological stability. Usi...
In order to balance the economic development and ecological impact of tourism, it is essential to study tourism eco-efficiency in the context of sustainable development. This study analyzed regional tourism eco-efficiency based on the panel data of t...
Against the backdrop of accelerating global energy transition, China, as the world’s largest energy producer and consumer, has a crucial impact on achieving carbon neutrality goals through the green development of its power industry. Green tota...
This study aims to accurately assess the growth of agricultural total factor productivity and its driving components under the constraints of resources and environment, and provides reliable information for agricultural policy formulation and agricul...
In the context of China’s socialist market economy, production and circulation are equally important. Production creates value, while circulation realises value, and both are essential components of socialised reproduction. This paper, based on...
Improving agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) is an important aspect of sustainable agricultural development. Agricultural services, a new way of farmland utilization in agricultural production, solved the problem of ‘who and h...
Due to severe resource and environmental constraints, agricultural green development is a vital step for the low-carbon development of China. How to achieve the goal of a win–win scenario that simultaneously improves agricultural green total factor p...
In this paper, we investigate the implications of continued industrial economic growth on environmental pollution in China in order to inform strategic policies to achieve sustainable development of the industrial sector. We calculate green total fac...
27 August 2019
From the perspective of green growth, which seeks to coordinate and make sustainable the development of resources, the environment, and the economy, this study’s aim was to find out whether the high-tech industry along the Belt and Road (B&...
25 November 2022
This paper investigates the impact of two types of environmental regulations (ERs), command-and-control environmental regulation (CACER) and market-incentive environmental regulation (MIER), on green total factor productivity (GTFP) through outward f...
This study aims to identify the overall level of China’s sea use efficiency (SUE) from 2006 to 2018 as well as regional differences and dynamic changes The super-efficiency weighted slacks-based measure (Super-WSBM) model and the global Malmqui...
While agriculture plays an essential role in food security, it is also one of the largest emitters of carbon emissions. China’s carbon neutrality and carbon peaking goals mean that China’s agriculture is also going through a low-carbon tr...
The logistics industry remains a critical bottleneck for decarbonization due to its extensive physical networks and high-carbon path dependencies. To address the spatial heterogeneity and transition constraints in the logistics industry of China, thi...
The measurement and improvement of urban land use efficiency (ULUE) are crucial for sustainable development in China’s Canal Cities (CCCs). Drawing on the theories of production factors, spatial externalities, and agglomeration economy, this st...
1 February 2023
The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has both advanced China’s economic development process and influenced the ecological quality of China’s regions. Under the deepening of economic globalization and the continuous deterioration...
The Yellow River Basin (YRB), a typical river system facing the challenge of balancing ecological conservation and economic development, offers valuable insights for global sustainable watershed governance through its forestry green transformation. B...
18 September 2019
Improvement of ecological total-factor energy efficiency (ETFEE) is crucial for transformation of China’s economic growth pattern, energy conservation and emissions abatement. Here we combined the epsilon-based measure (EBM) and the Global Malm...
Promoting green development has emerged as a pivotal approach to optimizing the ecological and economic structure, thereby fostering sustainable development. Whether the implementation of environmental regulations in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (...
Based on a balanced panel of nine provincial-level forest-park systems in the Yellow River Basin over 2013–2022 (90 province-year observations), this study measures the tourism eco-efficiency of forest parks and examines its spatiotemporal evol...
Economic development in China has been severely restricted by environmental problems such as carbon emissions. Improving green total factor productivity (GTFP) is an extremely important pathway to realizing carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Neverthe...
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