Determining the Efficiency of the Sponge City Construction Pilots in China Based on the DEA-Malmquist Model

Heng Zhang, Qian Chang, Sui Li () and Jiandong Huang ()
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Heng Zhang: School of Management Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu 233030, China
Qian Chang: School of Information Management, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Sui Li: School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu 233030, China
Jiandong Huang: School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 18, 1-17

Abstract: Sponge city construction (SCC) has improved the quality of the urban water ecological environment, and the policy implementation effect of SCC pilots is particularly remarkable. Based on the data envelopment analysis (DEA) model, this study employed the related index factors such as economy, ecology, infrastructure, and the population of the pilot city as the input, and the macro factors of SCC as the output, to scientifically evaluate the relative efficiency between the SCC pilots in China. Eleven representative SCC pilots were selected for analysis from the perspectives of static and dynamic approaches, and comparisons based on the horizontal analysis of the efficiency of SCC pilots were conducted and some targeted policy suggestions are put forward, which provide a reliable theoretical model and data support for the efficiency evaluation of SCC. This paper can be used as a reference for construction by providing a DEA model for efficiency evaluation methods and thus helps public sector decision makers choose the appropriate construction scale for SCC pilots.

Keywords: sponge city construction; data envelopment analysis; efficiency evaluation; water ecological environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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