[HTML][HTML] A survey and analysis of the first 40 years of scholarly literature in DEA: 1978–2016

A Emrouznejad, G Yang - Socio-economic planning sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

The static and dynamic carbon emission efficiency of transport industry in China

C Meng, X Du, M Zhu, Y Ren, K Fang - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Transport industry is one of the major contributors to energy-related carbon emissions in
China, thus becoming a topical area of concern where efforts to improve carbon emission …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental performance assessment in the transport sector using nonparametric frontier analysis: A literature review

A Hatami-Marbini, JO Asu, P Khoshnevis - Computers & Industrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing environmental issues relating to carbon dioxide emissions are a primary
concern globally and have triggered excessive research to investigate possible ways to …

Understanding the trend of total factor carbon productivity in the world: Insights from convergence analysis

C Bai, K Du, Y Yu, C Feng - Energy Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
Improving carbon emission performance is widely regarded as one of the most cost-effective
ways to combat clime change. This paper employs a parametric Malmquist index approach …

The effect of urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions efficiency in the Yangtze River Delta, China

J Li, X Huang, MP Kwan, H Yang, X Chuai - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Cities have been one of the most important areas of CO 2 emissions. It is increasingly
important to research the effect of urbanization on CO 2 emissions, especially in large …

Industrial energy efficiency and driving forces behind efficiency improvement: Evidence from the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration in China

X Ouyang, X Mao, C Sun, K Du - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Improving energy efficiency of industrial sectors is essential to achieve energy conservation
in the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration (PRDUA) in China. This study adopted …

Analysis of spatial and temporal carbon emission efficiency in Yangtze River Delta city cluster—Based on nighttime lighting data and machine learning

Q Sun, H Chen, Y Wang, H Huang, S Deng… - Environmental Impact …, 2023 - Elsevier
Improving carbon emission efficiency (CEE) is crucial to reducing CO 2 emissions. Most
studies on CO 2 emission are conducted at national and industrial scales, and city-scale …

Regional energy efficiency evaluation in China: A super efficiency slack-based measure model with undesirable outputs

T Yang, W Chen, K Zhou, M Ren - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of global economy, the demand for energy has increased
significantly. Therefore, energy efficiency improvement is essential for global energy and …

[HTML][HTML] Total factor energy productivity considering undesirable pollutant outputs: A new double frontier based malmquist productivity index

A Khoshroo, M Izadikhah, A Emrouznejad - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Determining energy productivity change during a time interval is an important issue in many
production lines. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach is a well-known technique …

Environmentally concerned logistics operations in fuzzy environment: A literature survey

O Tozanli, GM Duman, E Kongar, SM Gupta - Logistics, 2017 - mdpi.com
Growing environmental awareness coupled with stricter governmental regulations has
fueled the need for integrating sustainability into supply chain and logistics activities …