Abstract Sustainable Intensification (SI) practices offer adopters exploiting improvement potentials in environmental performance of farming, i.e. enhance ecosystem functionality, while maintaining productivity. This paper proposes a directional meta-frontier approach for measuring farms’ eco-efficiency and respective the direction ecological output SI evaluation. We account selection processes...

The high-tech industry plays a crucial role in reducing carbon emission and achieving green economic development. This research uses Meta-Frontier data envelopment analysis to measure the innovation efficiency level of China’s provinces from 1999 2018, compares difference this industry’s under regional Frontier common Frontier, inspects convergence condition its three major areas eastern, centr...

This research adopts the meta Dynamic Directional Distance Functions (DDF) model in order to calculate environmental efficiency and governance of China’s industrial sector from 2010 2017 overall, sub-regional, sub-provincial perspectives discusses technical gaps regional pollution control reasons for ineffective governance. The results show that overall level is relatively high over this time p...

An alternative approach for evaluating the efficiency of integrated circuit (IC) design firms is presented in this paper. We took into account the differences between technology groups, containing one or more design firms, and input and output factors to prevent influences of scale (e.g., firm size). Specifically, we employed a directional distance function approach to data envelopment analysis...

Introduction: Enhancing the green total factor productivity of dairy cows (GPDC) is crucial for fostering low-carbon sustainable development industry. Methods: This research utilizes Minimum distance to weak efficient frontier–Meta frontier–Malmquist–Luenberger (MinDW-MML) index examine GPDC using unbalanced panel data on in 26 provinces China from 2004 2020, taking into account regional hetero...

Introduction Efficiency in food production is crucial for sustainable agriculture developing countries. This paper contributes to the existing literature by presenting an innovative approach modeling productive efficiency beef cattle production. Treating farm performance across regions as unobserved heterogeneity, we determine technical of Botswana. We aim shed light on factors influencing this...

With more countries committing to achieving carbon neutrality targets by midcentury mitigate global climate change, it is necessary replace the combustion of fossil fuels in power industry with clean energy and improve CO2 reduction efficiency (CRE) energy. Therefore, this study introduces a multi-hierarchy meta-frontier data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach estimate inefficiency (CRI) poten...