Environmental efficiency evaluation based on data envelopment analysis: A review

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4465-4469

  Song, Malin ^a   An, Qingxian ^b   Zhang, Wei ^c   Wang, Zeya ^a   Wu, Jie ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental efficiency assessment; Small samples; Undesirable outputs

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; SMALL SAMPLES; UNDESIRABLE OUTPUTS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; RESEARCH;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84862312909     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.04.052     Document Type: Review

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