Regional agricultural sustainability assessment in China based on a developed model

Xuedong Liang (), Qunxi Gong (), Sipan Li (), Siyuan Huang () and Gengxuan Guo ()
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Xuedong Liang: Sichuan University
Qunxi Gong: Sichuan University
Sipan Li: Sichuan University
Siyuan Huang: Sichuan University
Gengxuan Guo: Sichuan University

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2023, vol. 25, issue 8, No 54, 8729-8752

Abstract: Abstract Sustainability assessment of agricultural system is vital to ensure improvements in agricultural sustainability abilities. Aiming at the comprehensive evaluation of agricultural sustainability, this paper builds an input and output indicator system, from the security–economy–society–ecology dimension. Then, based on super-efficiency slack-based model and coupling model, an integration model is developed and employed to measure the regional agricultural sustainability in 30 Chinese provinces in 2017. The major findings are as follows. First, significant regional disparities are found across the provinces, Beijing and Tianjin have the highest agricultural sustainability efficiencies at 0.902 and 0.957, respectively, and Xinjiang and Gansu only achieve 0.543 and 0.539, respectively. Second, China’s eastern regions had the best agricultural sustainability efficiencies, followed by the central regions and the western regions. Suggestions are provided to improve the agricultural sustainability efficiency.

Keywords: Regional agriculture; Sustainability assessment; Innovative integration model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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