Evaluating the construction efficiencies of urban wastewater transportation and treatment capacity: Evidence from 70 megacities in China

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 128, Issue , 2018, Pages 373-381

  Wu, Ge ^a,b   Miao, Zhuang ^b   Shao, Shuai ^c   Jiang, Keshen ^a   Geng, Yong ^d   Li, Dejia ^e   Liu, Haimeng ^f  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b TAIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

China; Construction efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Sewers; Wastewater treatment capacity

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RECLAMATION; SEWERS; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

CHINA; CONSTRUCTION EFFICIENCY; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT; TREATMENT CAPACITY; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT CAPACITY;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT; GROWTH RATE; MEGACITY; SEWER NETWORK; URBAN POPULATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ATTENTION; CHINA; GOVERNMENT; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; SEWER; URBAN POPULATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANHUI; CHINA; CHONGQING; GUANGDONG; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU; HEFEI; LIUZHOU; SHAANXI; SHENZHEN; WUXI [CHONGQING]; XIANYANG;

EID: 85034035026     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: 18790658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.08.020     Document Type: Article

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