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Provincial cultivated land use efficiency in China: Empirical analysis based on the SBM-DEA model with carbon emissions considered

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  • Kuang, Bing
  • Lu, Xinhai
  • Zhou, Min
  • Chen, Danling

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Rapid urbanization and industrialization has worsened the situation of the scarce cultivated land resources of China. It's therefore of great importance for sustainable development based on the systematic evaluation on cultivated land use efficiency (CLUE). This study took carbon emissions resulting from cultivated land use into the measurement framework of CLUE, and a slack-based measure (SBM) model with undesirable outputs, boxplot, kernel density estimation and Tobit regression model are adopted for the analysis of 31 provinces in China from 2000 to 2017. The results showed that there was an increasing trend in CLUE in China from 0.5236 in 2000 to 0.8501 in 2017, with the growth rate of 38.40%. Most of provinces in China have much lower levels of CLUE with significantly spatial disparities. In particular, Hainan, Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou are always most efficient with the highest value of 1. At the regional level, the average value of CLUE in the northeastern region is the highest, followed by the western, eastern and central regions, and the CLUE in the eastern region is more unstable than the other three regions. The results of Tobit regression show that natural conditions, cultivated land resource endowments, agricultural production conditions, regional economic development and regional science and technology development are important factors resulting in the disparity of China's CLUE.

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  • Kuang, Bing & Lu, Xinhai & Zhou, Min & Chen, Danling, 2020. "Provincial cultivated land use efficiency in China: Empirical analysis based on the SBM-DEA model with carbon emissions considered," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:151:y:2020:i:c:s0040162518311545
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119874
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