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JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 195, Issue -, Pages 1487-1496Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.115
Keywords
Eco-efficiency; Urbanization; SEDEA; Spatial econometric; Cities
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71533004]
- key program of international cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences [131A11KYSB20130023]
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The rapid development of urbanization has had a dramatic: impact on the ecological environment in China. In this paper, we first measure the urban eco-efficiency of 281 prefecture-level cities in China during 2006-2013 using the super-efficiency data envelopment analysis (SEDEA) model. We then propose a new comprehensive index system to assess urbanization. Finally, we quantitatively explore the relationship between urbanization and urban eco-efficiency based on a spatial econometric analysis. The results showed that China's average urban eco-efficiency and comprehensive level of urbanization of 281 prefecture-level cities had shown increase during 2006-2013. However, distinct spatial disparities exist among different cities. China's urbanization has significant characteristics of spatial agglomeration and spatial convergence during 2006-2013, with a high-to-low spatial distribution from eastern China to western China. Spatial effects play an important role in the changes of urban eco-efficiency in China through spatial spillover effects and regional replication and competition. Evidence from spatial econometric analysis reveals that an N-shaped relationship exists between urbanization and urban eco-efficiency, indicating that with the improvement of urbanization, urban eco-efficiency first increases, then declines and then increases again. The improvement of the level of technology and the formulation of effective environmental policies will promote the increase in urban eco-efficiency. The results provide significant references for urban ecological management and sustainable urban transformation in China. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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