Chinese construction industry energy efficiency analysis with undesirable carbon emissions and construction waste output
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Chinese construction industry energy efficiency analysis with undesirable carbon emissions and construction waste outputs Xuedong Liang 1,2 & Shifeng Lin 2 & Xueyao Bi 2 & Enfan Lu 2 & Zhi Li 2 Received: 25 June 2020 / Accepted: 10 November 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract As the construction industry generates more than 30% of global greenhouse gases and more than 40% of global urban waste every year, energy conservation and emission reduction has become extremely important. This study proposes an innovative output system that includes undesirable carbon dioxide and construction waste outputs. A three-stage DEA-Malmquist model is used to measure the energy efficiency of the construction industry in 30 Chinese provinces from 2008 to 2017, and a stochastic frontier method is used in the second stage to analyze and remove the energy efficiency influences of environmental factors and random errors. It was found that the total factor energy efficiency change (TFEECH) and technology change (TECH) in China’s construction industry was underestimated because of the environmental factors and random errors. GRP per capita, energy consumption structures, industrial development degrees, and industrial concentrations were all found to play a positive role in improving energy efficiency; however, urbanization levels, technical equipment, policy support, and marketization were found to have a negative effect. Policy suggestions are given based on the empirical results. Keywords Total energy efficiency change . Construction industry . Construction waste . Three-stage . DEA-Malmquist model . Chinese eight regions
Introduction The coordination of the relationship between economic development, energy conservation, and environmental protection has become an important problem faced by countries all over the world in the development process. Especially in the field of Responsible Editor: Nicholas Apergis * Zhi Li [email protected] Xuedong Liang [email protected] Shifeng Lin [email protected] Xueyao Bi [email protected] Enfan Lu [email protected] 1
The Economy and Enterprise Development Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
environmental protection, climate warming and solid waste pollution have become environmental problems to be solved urgently. In 2016, the total global GDP was 74 trillion US dollars, 13.276 billion tonnes of primary energy were consumed, 32.31 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide were emitted, and 2.01 billion tonnes of solid waste produced. And the construction industry is the largest source of new carbon dioxide and solid waste. As the largest developing country in the world, China’s construction industry can have a significant impact on the world’s economic development on the one hand, and on the other hand is an important part of energy consumption and pollution emissions. Currently, more than 36% of China’s greenhouse gas emissions come from con
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