- Title
- The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Ecological Efficiencies in Xinjiang, China
- Creator
- Zhou, Xudong; Lv, Guanghui; Lamb, Dane; Yang, Xiaodong
- Relation
- Fresenius Environmental Bulletin Vol. 28, Issue 12, p. 9111-9119
- Publisher
- Parlar Scientific Publications (P S P)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Eco-efficiency is an effective means to evaluate sustainable development. It is of great practical significance to study the ecological efficiency of the ecologically fragile arid region of Xinjiang in order to formulate scientific policies and measures of ecological environmental protection. In this study, variation in ecological efficiency was empirically analyzed for 14 cities of Xinjiang between 2001 to 2015 using a super-efficiency DEA-Tobit evaluation model. These analyses indicated that (1) the ecological efficiency of Xinjiang rose steadily every year between 2001 and 2015, except for a brief decline in 2009; (2) ecological efficiency was unbalanced among the prefectures, and ecological efficiencies were generally low; (3) analysis of environmental efficiency and resource efficiency led to the recognition of four developmental modes that represent Xinjiang prefectures: low energy consumption and low emissions, high energy consumption and low emissions, low energy consumption and high emissions, and high energy consumption and high emissions. By analyses of the Malmquist index (4), it was found that technical progress (TC) restricted the total factor productivity (TFP), while technical efficiency index (EC) promoted TFP. Finally (5), ecological efficiency was positively and significantly correlated with the utilization of foreign capital, urbanization rate, and average education degree, but significantly and negatively correlated with the marketization degree.
- Subject
- Xinjiang; ecological effiency; Malmquist index; Tobit regression model
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1451735
- Identifier
- uon:44258
- Identifier
- ISSN:1018-4619
- Language
- eng
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