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100			_aHuang, Jianhuan _932038
245			_aEco-efficiency Convergence and Green Urban Growth in China
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 42, Issue 3-4, 2019(281-306 p.)
520			_aEco-efficiency measures if economic growth and environmental protection are effectively balanced. To understand the path of green urban growth in China, this article examines the converging patterns of eco-efficiency for 191 Chinese cities within 2003 and 2013. Two types of modified Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methods and spatial modeling approach are adopted in empirical analyses, with cities grouped based on three types of heterogeneities that facilitate the formation of potential convergence clubs. We find that major Chinese cities are β-converging in their eco-efficiency scores and are forming place-based convergence clubs in terms of geographical location, environmental policy, and resource endowments. Less efficient clubs are converging at a faster speed toward low-level steady states, while more efficient clubs are reaching separate high-level equilibria with relatively slow rates and longer half-life. We further raise corresponding policy implications that aim at retarding or reversing the ongoing trend of eco-efficiency deterioration.
650			_aeco-efficiency, _940057
650			_a β-convergence, _940058
650			_aconvergence club, _940059
650			_aplace-based policy, _940060
650			_a spatial spillover _940084
700			_a Hua, Yue _940062
700			_a Ross, Amanda _932503
773	0		_011129 _915490 _dSage, 2019. _tInternational regional science review
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0160017618790032
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