Haze Influencing Factors: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
Open Access
- 14 March 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Vol. 16 (6), 914
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16060914
Abstract
This paper investigates the meteorological factors and human activities that influence PM2.5 pollution by employing the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach to a chance constrained stochastic optimization problem. This approach has the two advantages of admitting random input and output, and allowing the evaluation unit to exceed the front edge under the given probability constraint. Furthermore, by utilizing the meteorological observation data incorporated with the economic and social data for Jiangsu Province, the chance constrained stochastic DEA model was solved to explore the relationship between the meteorological elements and human activities and PM2.5 pollution. The results are summarized by the following: (1) Among all five primary indexes, social progress, energy use and transportation are the most significant for PM2.5 pollution. (2) Among our selected 14 secondary indexes, coal consumption, population density and civil car ownership account for a major portion of PM2.5 pollution. (3) Human activities are the main factor producing PM2.5 pollution. While some meteorological elements generate PM2.5 pollution, some act as influencing factors on the migration of PM2.5 pollution. These findings can provide a reference for the government to formulate appropriate policies to reduce PM2.5 emissions and for the communities to develop effective strategies to eliminate PM2.5 pollution.Funding Information
- National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science (16ZDA047)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (71673145, 71171115)
- reform Foundation of Postgraduate Education and Teaching in Jiangsu Province (JGKT10034, KYCX17_0904, SK2015ZD07)
- Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province (2014-JY-014)
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