Frame work of data envelopment analysis-a model to evaluate the environmental efficiency of china's industrial sectors

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-13

  Tao, Zhang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

China; Data of envelopment analysis; Directional distance function; Environmental efficiency; Technical efficiency; Technical environmental efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349152121     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-3988(09)60015-5     Document Type: Article

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