The main aim of this review article is to review of DEA models in regarding to energy
efficiency. This paper reviewed and summarized the different models of DEA that have been …

This study systematically summarizes previous research efforts on Data Envelopment
Analysis (DEA) applied to energy and environment in the past four decades, including …

Sustainable development and sustainability assessment have been of great interest to both
academe and practitioners in the past decades. In this study, we review the literature on data …

This study introduces an improved Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index to measure the
green productivity growth of China's manufacturing sector during the 11th Five-Year Period …

The use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in China's regional energy efficiency and
carbon emission efficiency (EE&CE) assessment has received increasing attention in recent …

Evaluating the energy and emissions efficiency, measuring the energy saving and
emissions reduction potential, and estimating the carbon price in China at the regional level …

This paper employs a newly developed non-radial directional distance function to evaluate
China's regional energy and CO 2 emission performance for the period 1997–2009 …

Green development has attracted increasing attention by the international community. This
paper uses a green development performance index (GDPI) based on data envelopment …

Environmental protection, including the prevention of air pollution and health hazard
materials such as PM2. 5 and PM10, is now a very serious policy issue in China after …

Undesirable outputs (or bads) refer to the byproducts accompanied with desirable outputs
(or goods) in a production process, eg sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide in coal-fired power …