The heterogeneities of production technology among provinces in China cause difficulties
for unbiased evaluation of energy efficiency. Using meta-frontier data envelopment analysis …

This paper used data from 50 enterprises in China's iron and steel industry to evaluate their
energy efficiency and productivity change. The study first used a conventional data …

China's annual crude steel production in 2010 was 638.7 Mt accounting for nearly half of the
world's annual crude steel production in the same year. Around 461 TWh of electricity and …

In the process of setting operational targets to achieve sustainable development of
economy, environment and natural resources, estimation of potential energy saving and …

Industrial parks have become the effective strategies for government to promote sustainable
economic development due to the following advantages: shared infrastructure and …

Improving energy efficiency and productivity is one of the most cost-effective ways for
achieving the sustainable development target in China. This paper employs non-radial …

Undesirable output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models with different return
of scales are used to study the CO2 (Carbon dioxide) emissions performance of the …

Recently, environmental pollution has attracted a lot of attention domestically and
internationally. It is known that energy utilization is a major source of China's environmental …

This paper measures environmental productivity in 70 countries over the period 1981–2007.
Differences in green (environmental) productivity growth across countries under distinct …

The vegetable oil industry is considered as one of the major industries contributing to energy
consumption in Iran. Despite the increasing need to improve energy efficiency in this …