Measuring ecological efficiency with data envelopment analysis (DEA)
TL;DR: This article aims at the systematic derivation of ecologically extended DEA models by incorporating a multi-dimensional value function f .
About: This article is published in European Journal of Operational Research.The article was published on 2001-07-16. It has received 449 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Data envelopment analysis.
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TL;DR: A literature survey on the application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to E&E studies is presented and an introduction to the most widely used DEA techniques is introduced.
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TL;DR: In this article, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method was adapted for the purpose of eco-efficiency measurement of road transportation in three largest towns of eastern Finland, and the proposed approach is illustrated by an application to assessing ecoefficiency of road transport in the three largest cities of Eastern Finland.
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Aggregation of environmental pressures into a single environmental damage index is a major challenge of eco-efficiency measurement. This article examines how the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method can be adapted for this purpose. DEA accounts for substitution possibilities between different natural resources and emissions and does not require subjective judgment about the weights. Although DEA does not require subjective or normative judgment, soft weight restrictions can be incorporated into the framework. The proposed approach is illustrated by an application to assessing ecoefficiency of road transportation in the three largest towns of eastern Finland.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted an eco-efficiency analysis for regional industrial systems in China by developing data envelopment analysis (DEA) based models, which showed that Tianjing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Beijing, Hainan and Qinghai are relatively eco-efficient.
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TL;DR: It is found that the environmental performance of OECD countries as a whole has been improved from 1995 to 1997 and a non-radial Malmquist environmental performance index for modeling the change of environmental performance over time is presented.
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..., 1992; Hawdon, 2003), assess energy efficiencies of different organizations (Boyd and Pang, 2000; Ramanathan, 2000) and measure ecological efficiency (Dyckhoff and Allen, 2001; Korhonen and Luptacik, 2004)....
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...…widely applied to estimate the technical efficiency of energy industries (Thompson et al., 1992; Hawdon, 2003), assess energy efficiencies of different organizations (Boyd and Pang, 2000; Ramanathan, 2000) and measure ecological efficiency (Dyckhoff and Allen, 2001; Korhonen and Luptacik, 2004)....
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TL;DR: In this article, a review of 144 published scholarly papers appearing in 45 high-ranking journals between 2006 and 2015 have been obtained to achieve a comprehensive review of DEA application in energy efficiency, where the selected articles have been categorized based on year of publication; author (s) nationalities, scope of study, time duration, application area, study purpose, results and outcomes.
Abstract: The main aim of this review article is to review of DEA models in regarding to energy efficiency. This paper reviewed and summarized the different models of DEA that have been applied around the world to development of energy efficiency problems. Consequently, a review of 144 published scholarly papers appearing in 45 high-ranking journals between 2006 and 2015 have been obtained to achieve a comprehensive review of DEA application in energy efficiency. Accordingly, the selected articles have been categorized based on year of publication; author (s) nationalities, scope of study, time duration, application area, study purpose, results and outcomes. Results of this review paper indicated that DEA showed great promise to be a good evaluative tool for future analysis on energy efficiency issues, where the production function between the inputs and outputs was virtually absent or extremely difficult to acquire.
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TL;DR: The CCR ratio form introduced by Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes, as part of their Data Envelopment Analysis approach, comprehends both technical and scale inefficiencies via the optimal value of the ratio form, as obtained directly from the data without requiring a priori specification of weights and/or explicit delineation of assumed functional forms of relations between inputs and outputs as mentioned in this paper.
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