Study on Environment Performance Evaluation and Regional Differences of Strictly-Environmental-Monitored Cities in China

Xianhua Wu () and Ji Guo ()
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Xianhua Wu: Shanghai Maritime University
Ji Guo: Shanghai Maritime University

Chapter Chapter 22 in Economic Impacts and Emergency Management of Disasters in China, 2021, pp 641-671 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract With the rapid economic growth and development, the problem of environmental pollution in China’s cities is becoming increasingly serious, and environmental pollution takes on a regional difference. There is, however, little comprehensive evaluation on the environmental performance and the regional difference of strictly-environmental-monitored cities in China. In this paper, the environmental performance of 109 strictly-environmental-monitored cities in China is evaluated in terms of natural performance, management performance and scale performance by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), incorporating PM2.5 and PM10 as undesirable outputs. The empirical results show that: (1) At present, the natural performance is quite high, while the management performance is noticeably low for most cities. (2) The gap between the level of economic development and environmental protection among cities in China is large, and the scale efficiency of big cities is better than that of smaller cities. The efficiency value of large-scale cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen etc. is high, equaling 1; the value of smaller cities such as Sanmenxia, Baoding, Mudanjiang, Pingdingshan is low, close to 0, indicating that big cities are characterized by high environmental efficiency. (3) From the perspective of region, the level of environmental performance in China is badly uneven. For example, the environmental efficiency level of the Pan-Pearl River Delta region is superior to that of the Pan-Yangtze River region and the Bahia Rim region, whose values of environmental efficiency are 0.858, 0.658 and 0.622 respectively. The average efficiency of the Southern Coastal Economic Zone, Eastern Coastal Comprehensive Economic Zone, and the Comprehensive Economic Zone in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is higher than that of other regions. Finally, the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions are put forward. The method used in this paper is applicable to the performance evaluation of cities, and the results of the evaluation reflect the differences of the environmental performance level between strictly-environmental-monitored cities and different regions in China, providing reference for the balanced environmental development of cities and regions.

Keywords: DEA; Environment Performance; Strictly-environmental-monitored cities; PM2.5; PM10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1319-7_22

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