Urban Ecological Efficiency and Its Influencing Factors—A Case Study in Henan Province, China

Tao Liu, Jixia Li, Juan Chen and Shaolei Yang
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Tao Liu: School of Finance and Economics, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
Jixia Li: School of Emergency Management, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
Juan Chen: School of Economics and Management, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
Shaolei Yang: Chinese Studies Center, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 18, 1-20

Abstract: The urban ecological civilization construction relates to welfare of the people and the national future. It is an important field of the high-quality economic development to improve the urban ecological efficiency level. The purpose of this research is to provide a new perspective and method for the quantitative study of the urban sustainable development, and also to provide some decision-making references for the improvement of the urban ecological efficiency in Henan province. This paper uses the slacks-based measure-data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA) model containing the undesirable output and the Malmquist index model to fully evaluate the urban ecological efficiency level in Henan province during the period of 2005–2016, via both the static and dynamic analysis. Based on this, the bootstrap regression model is applied in analyzing the influencing factors of the urban ecological efficiency. The research shows three findings. First, according to the static efficiency analysis, the urban ecological efficiency in Henan province is low as a whole and has a big promotion space. Moreover, there is a significant difference in the urban ecological efficiency level among the five regions because of the different geographical locations and social and economic development situations of the cities. Second, according to the dynamic efficiency analysis, in the last 12 years, the urban ecological efficiency in Henan province has shown an overall growth trend, and the technological progress has played a major role in promoting the urban ecological efficiency in Henan province. Third, according to the influencing factor analysis, the governmental financial support hinders the improvement of the urban ecological efficiency in Henan province, while the level of opening to the outside world, the urban population density, and the urban greening level promote it.

Keywords: urban ecological efficiency; SBM-DEA model; bootstrap regression model; influencing factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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