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Evaluation of regional Eco-Efficiency and its influencing factors in China: Based on Super-SBM and Tobit model

Super-SBM 및 Tobit 모델을 기반으로 한 중국지역 환경효율성 평가 및 영향요인 연구

  • Yinjin Zeng (Dept. of Economics, Trade and Management, Yibin Vocational and Technical College) ;
  • Jae yeon Sim (Dept. of Management, Sehan University)
  • Received : 2023.12.13
  • Accepted : 2024.01.25
  • Published : 2024.01.31
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Abstract

In this study, 31 provincial-level administrative regions in China from 2011 to 2021 were taken as the research objects, and the super-SBM model was used to measure the regional eco-efficiency with capital, labor, land and resource input as input variables, GDP and green coverage as the desirable outputs, and wastewater, waste gas and solid waste emissions as the undesired outputs. Tobit regression was used to analyze the effects of external environmental factors on eco-efficiency. The results showed that the average level of eco-efficiency in China was low, and the eco-efficiency in the eastern region was higher than that in other regions, and there were great differences in the western, northeast and central regions.

본 연구에서는 2011년부터 2021년까지 중국의 31개 성(省)급 행정구역을 연구 대상으로 삼았으며, 자본, 노동, 토지 및 자원 투입을 투입 변수로, GDP 및 녹색 범위를 예상 산출량으로, 폐수, 폐가스 및 고형 폐기물 등의 배출을 바람직하지 않은 산출물로 하고, 지역 환경효율성을 측정하기 위해 super-SBM 모형을 이용하였다. 외부 환경요인이 환경효율성에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해 토빗 회귀분석을 이용하였다. 그 결과 중국의 평균 환경효율성 수준은 낮았고 동부지역의 환경효율성은 다른 지역보다 높았으며 서부, 북동부 및 중부 지역에서 큰 차이가 있었다.

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Acknowledgement

This Paper was supported by the Sehan University Fund in 2024.

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