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This chapter first analyzes the current situation of natural resources utilization in China and then uses the entropy method to construct the natural resources efficiency utilization index from the three aspects of water resources, land resources, and energy. Next, based on existing works related to environmental assessment, labor, capital, energy, land resource, and water resource are taken as the input variables; GDP as the desirable output; and industrial wastewater, industrial waste gas, and industrial solid pollutants as undesirable outputs for conducting the SBM-DEA analysis to calculate the environmental efficiency in China. Then, this chapter presents the CCR-DEA analysis, which takes the calculated environmental efficiency as the output and the natural resources efficiency utilization index as the input. Finally, a regression analysis model is established by taking carbon emissions as the main representative index of environmental effects, the comprehensive index of natural resources efficiency utilization as the main explanatory variable, and other environment-related principal components as control variables to draw conclusions and provide suggestions.
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Song, M., Ding, T., Chen, J. (2023). Research on Environmental Effects of Natural Resources Efficiency Utilization. In: Natural Resources Utilization in China. Contributions to Public Administration and Public Policy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4981-6_6
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