Industrial eco-efficiency and its spatial-temporal differentiation in China

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering in China

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 559-568

  Yang, Wei ^a,b,c   Jin, Fengjun ^a,c   Wang, Chengjin ^a,c   Lv, Chen ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis (DEA) model; exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA); industrial eco efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865544838     PISSN: 16737415     EISSN: 16737520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-012-0400-4     Document Type: Article

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