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The Coordination of Aquaculture Development with Environment and Resources: Based on Measurement of Provincial Eco-Efficiency in China

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  • Wei Yan

    (Business School, Ningbo University, 818 Fenghua Road, Jiangbei District, Ningbo 315211, China)

  • Changbiao Zhong

    (Business School, Ningbo University, 818 Fenghua Road, Jiangbei District, Ningbo 315211, China)

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To resolve the environmental problems of China’s aquaculture industry, we must examine the current situation and comprehensively consider aquaculture growth, resource conservation and environmental protection. Using the unit investigation and evaluation method to evaluate the nonpoint source pollution of each province, this paper calculates eco-efficiency to evaluate the coordination of environment and aquaculture growth based on the slacks-based measure directional distance function dealing with undesirable outputs. The results reveal that the eco-efficiency of aquaculture in China from 2003 to 2018 is 0.70 and obviously lower than the industry’s economic efficiency, indicating aquaculture development has not been coordinated with resources and the environment. Environmental pollution brings great loss to the economic efficiency of aquaculture. Specifically, eastern China, with the highest aquaculture output, shows the best degree of coordination, followed by western China. Six provinces or province-level municipalities, including Fujian, Shanghai, Beijing, Hainan and Tianjin, are growing soundly and rapidly, while central China exhibits the most obvious imbalance among the environment, resources and aquaculture development.

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  • Wei Yan & Changbiao Zhong, 2022. "The Coordination of Aquaculture Development with Environment and Resources: Based on Measurement of Provincial Eco-Efficiency in China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(13), pages 1-13, June.
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