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Construction and application of a comprehensive coordination and cross-efficiency sustainable development evaluation model: a case study of 31 provinces and regions in China

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This paper proposes a comprehensive coordination and cross-efficiency evaluation model, aimed at tackling the problems evident in self-evaluation systems based on data envelopment assessment models, such as “developing strengths and avoiding weaknesses,” “ranking strengths and weaknesses completely,” extreme weights, and so on. Based on environmental sustainability, economic development sustainability, social well-being sustainability, and scientific and technological innovation sustainability these four dimensions, this paper proposed model contains 19 evaluation indicators, of which 11 are inputs and 8 are outputs. This model can overcome the problems of multiple solutions and the instabilities of the average cross-efficiency model by relaxing the average hypothesis of the general cross-efficiency model, thereby reducing the distance between the weighted input and the weighted output of the regional sustainable development system assessment. Taking the evaluation of the sustainable development efficiency of 31 provinces and regions in China as an example, the results showed that the evaluation function of the comprehensive coordination and cross-efficiency evaluation model constructed in this paper has potential in measuring regional sustainable development system.

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  1. Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, Hubei, China

    Guowei Che & Zeming Wang

  2. College of Water Resource and Hydropower, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, Sichuan, China

    Zhengli Yang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, Sichuan, China

    Zhengli Yang

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Conceptualization, Guowei Che; Data curation, Guowei Che; Formal analysis, Guowei Che; Funding acquisition, Zeming Wang; Investigation, Guowei Che and Zeming Wang; Methodology, Guowei Che and Zeming Wang; Project administration, Zeming Wang; Resources, Zhengli Yang; Software, Guowei Che; Supervision, Zeming Wang; Validation, Guowei Che; Visualization, Zhengli Yang; Writing—original draft, Guowei Che; Writing—review & editing, Zhengli Yang.

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Table 2 Indicators of Regional Sustainable Development from Theory screening
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Table 3 The traditional DEA cross-efficiency evaluation model results between 2008 and 2013
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Table 4 The comprehensive coordination cross-efficiency evaluation model results between 2008 and 2013
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Che, G., Wang, Z. & Yang, Z. Construction and application of a comprehensive coordination and cross-efficiency sustainable development evaluation model: a case study of 31 provinces and regions in China. Environ Dev Sustain 23, 151–171 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-019-00571-6

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