ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Earth Sci.
Sec. Geoscience and Society
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feart.2025.1569365
This article is part of the Research TopicExploration, Development, and Protection of Earth’s Resources and Environment: Methods, Techniques, Applications, Prospects, Insights, and ProblemsView all 47 articles
Research on Green Total Factor Productivity of China's Mining Industry
Provisionally accepted
- 1Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, China
- 2China Geological Survey, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
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As China transitions towards a circular, green, and efficient economy, the mining industry, as a crucial pillar of national economic growth, faces dual challenges of resource efficiency and environmental governance. Against this backdrop, this study emphasizes the evaluation of green total factor productivity (GTFP) in China's mining industry, aiming to provide scientific insights to environmental pollution. To overcome the limitations of traditional radial and non-radial Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models, this study adopts the SBM model and incorporates the Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) index to analyze GTFP from both static and dynamic perspectives across 31 provinces in China from 2005 to 2021, and provides specific suggestions.
Keywords: mining industry, Green total factor productivity, SBM model, Malmquist-Luenberger index, Mineral resource efficiency
Received: 31 Jan 2025; Accepted: 27 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Meng and Chen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Xiao-Li Meng, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing, China
Bo Chen, China Geological Survey, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
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