In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

The ferrous metal industry is one of the biggest source of industrial energy consumption and
CO 2 emissions in China. This paper first employs the LMDI model to explore what …

Improving environmental performance of energy-and carbon-intensive sectors represented
by the iron and steel (IS) industry is of utmost importance to address the challenges of …

To resolve the increasingly higher energy and environmental pressures, the evaluation of
environmental efficiency in China's iron and steel industry is essential for identifying a …

This special issue includes the selected papers from the proceedings of the 7th International
Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE2015), which was successfully held during March 28 …

Allocation of emission permits (AEP) is an important issue because of its significant effects
on environmental governance and operations management. However, whether AEP results …

This paper analyses the regional technical efficiency of Chinese iron and steel industry from
1996 to 2010 by a network DEA procedure, and provides the smoothed bootstrap network …

The European metal industry can minimize carbon and energy intensity through Circular
Economy (CE) solutions in order to achieve the Agendas' 2030; 2050 targets. This paper …

This article discusses the influence of integration policies on tourism industry convergence
in the Yangtze River Delta based on data from 2011 to 2018. The spatial econometric test …

Based on existing references, using the decomposition technique of the second model of the
logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition method and the principle of “jointly …