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Revealing Energy Over-Consumption and Pollutant Over-Emission Behind GDP: A New Multi-criteria Sustainable Measure.
- Source :
- Computational Economics; Dec2019, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p1391-1421, 31p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This paper develops a new measurement for regional/national sustainable social economic development based on data envelopment analysis. This new measurement can reveal the impact of energy over-consumption and pollutant over-emission on economic development, giving regional/national sustainable development a more proper measure. This new measurement is applied into an empirical study for 10 year (2004–2013) sustainable development analysis of 30 regions in mainland China. The empirical results show that: (1) China has a quite unsustainable development in 2004–2013, and the level of unsustainability increased over time. The primary driver of these two phenomenon is pollutant over-emission and resource over-consumption respectively. (2) Area-wide sustainable development in China is quite unbalanced. Eastern China has a much better sustainable development as compared to other areas, and the variation of Eastern China's sustainable level is very little in 2004–2013. (3) Resource over-consumption and pollutant over-emission in western China are serious, even the absolute values are quite low. This makes western China develop unsustainably in 2004–2013. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09277099
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Computational Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 139827284
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-017-9663-y