Assessing the performance of Taiwan’s environmental protection system with a non-radial network DEA approach

Chin-wei Huang, Yung-Ho Chiu, Wei-ta Fang and Neng Shen

Energy Policy, 2014, vol. 74, issue C, 547-556

Abstract: Previous studies involving environmental performance purely focus on analyzing environmental or waste treatment efficiencies. This study combines various aspects of environmental protection and establishes a non-radial network DEA approach to evaluate the performance of an environmental protection system. The empirical methodology assumes that the system consists of three stages: administrative, executive processes, and protection effectiveness. The executive process includes waste treatment and pollution auditing divisions. In addition to assessing efficiencies, the empirical evaluation further explores the internal and external influences on performances and contributes implications and suggestions for environmental policy makers.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis; Environmental efficiency; Environmental protection; Undesirable output; Network model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.06.023

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