THE RECENT ECOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA: INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS OF ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT
整合全球超效率网络数据包络分析和面板向量自回归模型，评估2011-2020年中国三大区域的生态效率，揭示经济、社会与环境子系统的互动机制，为区域可持续发展政策提供参考。
Ecological efficiency (EE) provides much reference for formulating appropriate regional economic, social and environmental policies to promote sustainable development. Interactive subsystems of economy, society and environment within EE system have been considered in this paper. By innovatively integrating the merits of two advanced economic research methods (global super efficiency network data envelopment analysis (GSE-NDEA) and panel vector autoregression (PVAR) and updating the EE evaluation indicator system by following the new features of sustainable development in the recent China, this paper comprehensively evaluates EE by drawing evidence from 3 regions in China during the period of 2011–2020, and further reveals how the three subsystems within EE system interact to achieve EE enhancement. The findings show EE and its three subsystems’ trend, the major constrains of EE development, the regional discrepancies in EE progress, and the interactions among the subsystems of economy-society-environment within the EE system in different regions of China. The policy implications are proposed accordingly.