Environmental efficiency evaluation based on data envelopment analysis: A review

Malin Song, Qingxian An, Wei Zhang, Zeya Wang, Jie Wu

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4465-4469
Number of pages5
JournalRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Volume16
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 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 ).

Funding

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 ).

FundersFunder number
Key Foundation of National research in Statistics of China2011LZ023
Key Foundation of Natural Science for Colleges and Universities in AnhuiKJ2011A001
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)70901069, 71171001
National Social Science Fund of China10BGL066
Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China10YJC630208

    Keywords

    • Environmental efficiency assessment
    • Small samples
    • Undesirable outputs

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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