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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Measurement and Evaluation of Green
Land Use Efficiency in China
1
Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China
Submission date: 2024-08-08
Final revision date: 2024-08-30
Acceptance date: 2024-11-07
Online publication date: 2025-01-27
Publication date: 2026-01-29
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2026;35(1):99-119
KEYWORDS
urban land green use efficiencyinput-output analysismulti-perspective spatiotemporal analysissuper-efficiency SBM
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
This paper examines 31 provinces in China as the research object. Based on inter-provincial data,
the Super-SBM model, which considers non-expected output, is used to estimate the land green use
efficiency of each province in China from 2010 to 2022. The reasons for changes in land green use
efficiency are analyzed in combination with the GML index. Using kernel density analysis, the dynamic
information of the absolute differences in land green use efficiency among provinces in China was
further investigated, and the overall dynamic distribution morphological characteristics were described.
The results show that the highest land green use efficiency in China was 0.70 in 2022. During the actual
development process, the overall level of land-intensive use in the eastern development zones was
relatively high, with the highest land efficiency and industrial land use intensity in the country. From
2010 to 2022, the average land green use efficiency of most provinces and cities remained at a low level,
with significant differences in the average levels of land green use efficiency across provinces and cities.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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