Treating grazing pressure as an undesirable output of livestock grazing in a directional
distance function improves understanding of how economic behaviour affects the …

Industrial water consumption is increasing in China. The amount of industrial water use
increased 28.3 billion m3 from 1997 to 2007, and the share of industrial water use in China …

Purpose–In the early 1990s, the Thai government initiated a process of reform of the
electricity industry with the argument that such reform would improve the performance of the …

This paper estimates the cost of effluent discharge regulations for firms located in the lower
Kelani River catchment in Sri Lanka. The river provides water for many economic purposes …

This paper assesses the environmental and economic efficiency of thermal plants operating
on fossil fuels in Pakistan using methods based on data envelopment analysis. Using the …

在我国环境污染日趋严重的态势下, 污染物排放交易市场的构建及其交易价格的确定是有效治理
污染物排放的关键问题. 本文分别运用二次型方向性距离函数和森岛通夫产出替代弹性估算了 …

We estimate carbon mitigation cost (CMC) and the factors determining change in CMC using
environmental production function. The CMC index is defined as the ratio of maximum …

The main objective of the paper is to analyze the impact of environmental regulation on
technical efficiencies of Indian cement producing firms. It derives the technical efficiency (TE) …

Purpose This paper studies the efficiency of Indian coal-fired thermal power plants (CTPPs)
in by-production of electricity and particulates also known as Suspended Particulate Matter …

The assessment of carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions performance is crucial to make policies
for abatement. This study applies the parameterized quadratic directional output distance …