Regional agricultural sustainability assessment in China based on a developed model

Sustainability assessment of agricultural system is vital to ensure improvements in agricultural sustainability abilities. Aiming at the comprehensive evaluation of agricultural sustainability, this paper builds an input and output indicator system, from the security–economy–society–ecology dimensio...

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Published in:Environment, development and sustainability development and sustainability, 2023-08, Vol.25 (8), p.8729-8752
Main Authors: Liang, Xuedong, Gong, Qunxi, Li, Sipan, Huang, Siyuan, Guo, Gengxuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agriculture
Data envelopment analysis
Earth and Environmental Science
Ecology
Economic development
Economic Geology
Economic Growth
Efficiency
Empowerment
Environment
Environmental Economics
Environmental Management
Farming systems
Provinces
Regional analysis
Regional development
Regions
Research methodology
Statistical analysis
Sustainability
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable Development
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Summary:Sustainability assessment of agricultural system is vital to ensure improvements in agricultural sustainability abilities. Aiming at the comprehensive evaluation of agricultural sustainability, this paper builds an input and output indicator system, from the security–economy–society–ecology dimension. Then, based on super-efficiency slack-based model and coupling model, an integration model is developed and employed to measure the regional agricultural sustainability in 30 Chinese provinces in 2017. The major findings are as follows. First, significant regional disparities are found across the provinces, Beijing and Tianjin have the highest agricultural sustainability efficiencies at 0.902 and 0.957, respectively, and Xinjiang and Gansu only achieve 0.543 and 0.539, respectively. Second, China’s eastern regions had the best agricultural sustainability efficiencies, followed by the central regions and the western regions. Suggestions are provided to improve the agricultural sustainability efficiency.
ISSN:1387-585X
1573-2975
DOI:10.1007/s10668-022-02420-5