China's regional energy and environmental efficiency: A Range-Adjusted Measure based analysis

Applied Energy

Volumn 112, Issue , 2013, Pages 1403-1415

  Wang, Ke ^a   Lu, Bin ^b   Wei, Yi Ming ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Damages to scale; Energy efficiency; Environmental efficiency; Range Adjusted Measure (RAM); Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MANAGERS; PUBLIC POLICY;

DAMAGES TO SCALE; ENERGY CONSERVATION AND EMISSION REDUCTIONS; ENERGY UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; RANGE-ADJUSTED MEASURE (RAM); RETURNS TO SCALE; STRONG AND WEAK DISPOSABILITIES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PARAMETERIZATION; POLICY MAKING; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CHINA;

EID: 84884204689     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.04.021     Document Type: Article

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