Eco-Efficiency Assessment of Water Systems in China

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 4927-4939

  Liu, Yuyu ^a   Sun, Caizhi ^b   Xu, Shiguo ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Data envelopment analysis; Eco efficiency; Rough set theory; Water system

Indexed keywords

CHINA; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS MODELS; ECO-EFFICIENCY; ECO-EFFICIENCY ASSESSMENTS; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES; ROUGH SET THEORY (RST); SPATIAL DIFFERENCES; WATER SYSTEM;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; ROUGH SET THEORY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERWORKS;

EFFICIENCY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; NATURE CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84886502417     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0448-3     Document Type: Article

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