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Abstract
Non-oriented super-efficiency undesirable-EBM model is used to measure green development efficiency (GDE) of 283 cities in China during 2006–2019. The dynamic spatial Durbin model and dynamic panel threshold model are adopted to analyze characteristics of urbanization on GDE. The results show that urbanization promotes local GDE, while inhibits surrounding GDE. When urbanization is over 0.677, promotes GDE. From heterogeneous analysis, urbanization promotes surrounding GDE in small cities, while inhibits surrounding GDE and promotes local GDE in large and medium-sized cities and megacities. Urbanization inhibits local and surrounding GDE in non-resource-based cities. In eastern region, urbanization inhibits surrounding GDE, while promotes surrounding GDE in central region. From dynamic threshold effect, urbanization promotes GDE in large and medium-sized cities, megacities, resource-based cities, non-resource-based cities, eastern and central regions, inhibits GDE in western region.
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The ultimate aim of Ecological Indicators is to integrate the monitoring and assessment of ecological and environmental indicators with management practices. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the applied scientific development and review of traditional indicator approaches as well as for theoretical, modelling and quantitative applications such as index development. Research into the following areas will be published.
• All aspects of ecological and environmental indicators and indices.
• New indicators, and new approaches and methods for indicator development, testing and use.
• Development and modelling of indices, e.g. application of indicator suites across multiple scales and resources.
• Analysis and research of resource, system- and scale-specific indicators.
• Methods for integration of social and other valuation metrics for the production of scientifically rigorous and politically-relevant assessments using indicator-based monitoring and assessment programs.
• How research indicators can be transformed into direct application for management purposes.
• Broader assessment objectives and methods, e.g. biodiversity, biological integrity, and sustainability, through the use of indicators.
• Resource-specific indicators such as landscape, agroecosystems, forests, wetlands, etc.