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  • Open Access
617 Views
30 Pages

Airline Carbon Emission Efficiency Study: Static and Dynamic Perspectives

  • Lianbin Zhou,
  • Zhifeng Zhou,
  • Peiwen Zhang and
  • Lidan Li

Amid the rapid growth of the aviation sector, carbon reduction presents a significant challenge for airlines. This study investigates the structural characteristics and dynamic evolution of carbon emission efficiency among 18 global airlines from 201...

  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
38 Pages

24 August 2026

Emerging industrial agglomeration drives green transformation through knowledge spillovers and economies of scale. However, its effects exhibit pronounced nonlinearity and heterogeneity, shaped by spatial externalities and development stages. This pa...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,722 Views
29 Pages

6 September 2023

Over the past decades, resource-based cities have played a significant role in the development of countries worldwide. China, as a representative developing country, has seen the vital role played by resource-based cities in its development progress....

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
5,359 Views
20 Pages

29 December 2021

Green innovation has become an important combination of high-quality economic growth and ecological sustainability. In this paper, the super-efficiency network SBM model was used to measure the two-stage green innovation efficiency of the industrial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,613 Views
19 Pages

As industrialization and urbanization in China have significantly increased ecological problems such as environmental pollution and resource waste, it has become important to be able to comprehensively assess ecological wellbeing performance (EWP) wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,727 Views
20 Pages

29 January 2021

This study adopted the two-stage super-efficiency network slack-based model (SBM) to measure the green development performance index (GDPI) of 30 provinces in China. The Dagum Gini coefficient decomposition was used to analyze the regional difference...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,824 Views
25 Pages

As the world accelerates efforts to combat climate change and transition toward a green, low-carbon economy, the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry has become a key driver of carbon reduction. Its ability to innovate efficiently is critical to long-te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
410 Views
33 Pages

21 August 2026

With the backdrop of the coexistence of sustainable development of marine economy and ecological environment restrictions, how to enhance the efficiency of marine environmental governance (MEGE) has become a significant topic whereby coastal regions...

(This article belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
  • Article
  • Open Access
556 Views
25 Pages

16 June 2026

Urban rail transit (URT) has developed rapidly in parallel with the rapid development of the Chinese economy. Some cities suffer from under-investment leading to traffic congestion and environmental pollution, while others suffer from over-investment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,776 Views
19 Pages

In order to promote the sustainable and coordinated development of the logistics industry and the manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China and provide the policy makers with decision-making references, this paper explored th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the Aspect of Globalization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,006 Views
28 Pages

29 June 2023

As a new product resulting from the deep integration of the financial industry and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, financial technology (fintech) has a significant impact on the progress of green total factor productivity (GTFP). Based on ci...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence Applications in Financial Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,835 Views
18 Pages

Under environmental governance constraints, in order to explore the quantitative contribution of green innovation efficiency to carbon peak and carbon neutralization at the urban level, this paper uses the unexpected Super-SBM model to measure the gr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision Models for Sustainable Development in the Carbon Neutrality Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,614 Views
20 Pages

This study presents a two-stage framework for analyzing the coupling mechanism between regional sustainable economic development and environmental protection subsystems. We propose a modified super-slack-based measure (SBM) model to evaluate efficien...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,302 Views
18 Pages

29 October 2023

Environmental regulation (ER) is a crucial tool used by governments to intervene in the environmental practices of enterprises, and it is recognized as a significant avenue to impact industrial ecological efficiency (IEE). This study uses the superef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,507 Views
17 Pages

26 June 2024

Improving land green use efficiency is of great significance for promoting high-quality economic development and promoting the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. In this study, the super-efficiency SBM model with non-e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,435 Views
16 Pages

This paper explores the effects of environmental regulation (ER) and rural residents’ health investment (RRHI) on agricultural eco-efficiency (AEE) to provide a reference for the Chinese Government and other developing countries for implementin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,020 Views
22 Pages

Green development is necessary for China to carry out high-quality economic development. As an important institutional arrangement in the vertical government structure, fiscal decentralization supports regional green development. Local government env...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Study on Environmental Problems and Countermeasures in the Process of Regional Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
720 Views
24 Pages

10 January 2026

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,143 Views
24 Pages

27 October 2022

The integrated development of new-type urbanization and tourism is of great significance for social development. Based on panel data of nine provinces in the Yellow River Basin from 2010 to 2019, models such as entropy TOPSIS, the super-SBM model, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)