Abstract
The paper aims to investigate the achievements of the theoretical and practical basis of environmental policy analysis in order to study their works and point out the future possible research direction. It sorts out researches about environmental efficiency assessment and reviews the works about the theory and application of efficiency analysis around the world. It is suggested that environmental efficiency evaluation theory under small samples and DEA method with undesirable outputs will further extend the research on environmental efficiency evaluation. Also, this review confirms that more studies in methods and their applications in this area are in urgent need.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4465-4469 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We would like to thank the supporting of National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 71171001 , 70901069 ), National Social Science Fund Project of China ( 10BGL066 ), Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of China ( 10YJC630208 ), Key Foundation of Natural Science for Colleges and Universities in Anhui, China ( KJ2011A001 ), and Key Foundation of National research in Statistics of China ( 2011LZ023 ).
Keywords
- Environmental efficiency assessment
- Small samples
- Undesirable outputs
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
