%0 Journal Article
%T Environmental Efficiency and Urban Ecology
%A Ching-Yu Chen
%A Jwu-Rong Lin
%J Theoretical Economics Letters
%P 422-446
%@ 2162-2086
%D 2021
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/tel.2021.113028
%X Evaluating organizational efficiency involves
measuring outcomes, such as revenues, value of goods and services produced,
productivity, etc. However, a sustainable environment requires not only
economic outcomes but also good quality of life in an area. Therefore, this
research proposes a balanced assessment to evaluate environmental efficiency
from the perspectives of urban ecology. We first adopted the bad output data
envelopment analysis to evaluate the efficiency of a metropolitan area followed
by a biotope area factor to </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">assess the
ecological effectiveness of an area. Next, a censored regression</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> model
evaluates the relationship between environmental efficiency and biotope area
factor. The empirical studies were conducted in Taichung, Taiwan. Empirical
results suggest that typical efficiency evaluation of a metropolitan area is
significantly overrated because it excludes external diseconomies such as CO</span><sub><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">2</span></sub><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> emissions which have a profound impact on the environment. The regression
results indicate that environmental efficiency and Taiwan biotope area factor </span><span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">are complementary and can be improved
simultaneously while CO</span><sub><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">2</span></sub><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> emission</span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> reduction is at present. We
also show that current utilization of area for non-agriculture and human
activities poses a negative impact on Taiwan biotope area factor.
%K Bad Output Data Envelopment Analysis
%K Biotope Area Factor
%K External Diseconomies
%K Technical Efficiency
%K CO2 Emissions
%K Sustainability
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=109640