Large-scale land use for construction and energy consumption after the new millennium with their impact on total-factor efficiency change in China's regional economy

Energies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1986-2003

  Chen, Shiyi ^a   Zhang, Shujian ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy; Land finance; Land use; Slacks based measure (SBM); Total factor efficiency (TFE)

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; LAND USE; REGIONAL PLANNING;

ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ENERGY; ENERGY AND EMISSIONS; ENERGY FACTORS; REGIONAL ECONOMY; SLACKS-BASED MEASURE (SBM); TOTAL FACTOR ENERGY EFFICIENCIES; TOTAL-FACTOR EFFICIENCY (TFE);

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84899132841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en7041986     Document Type: Article

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