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Title: Carbon sequestration total factor productivity growth and decomposition: A case of the yangtze river economic belt of China
Authors: Rao, G.
Su, B. 
Li, J.
Wang, Y.
Zhou, Y.
Wang, Z.
Keywords: Carbon sequestration total factor productivity (CSTFP)
Drivers decomposition analysis
Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)
Watershed segment analysis
Yangtze River economic belt (YREB)
Issue Date: 2019
Publisher: MDPI AG
Citation: Rao, G., Su, B., Li, J., Wang, Y., Zhou, Y., Wang, Z. (2019). Carbon sequestration total factor productivity growth and decomposition: A case of the yangtze river economic belt of China. Sustainability (Switzerland) 11 (23) : 6809. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236809
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: To find out whether carbon sequestration is both effective at mitigating climate change and promoting economic growth, in this paper, by adopting a stochastic frontier panel model with translog production function, carbon sequestration is incorporated into endogenous variables to establish estimation model of carbon sequestration total factor productivity (CSTFP) and examine CSTFP growth and its drivers decomposition of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) of China in three estimations. The result shows that, (1) compared to traditional TFP growth, CSTFP growth in YREB is improved by 26.74 percentages (from -26.55% to 0.20%), contributed by three positive drivers of technical effciency change (28.59%), technological progress change (18.55%), and scale effciency change (3.99%); (2) different CSTFP growth exists in three watershed segments of YREB, which firstly is the upper reaches (0.62%), then the lower reaches (0.11%) and the middle reaches (-0.14%). Improved CSTFP growth owes to carbon sequestration's harmonious symbiosis where natural ecosystems and human activities are naturally blended while insuffcient synergies are bottleneck for promotion of CSTFP growth in YREB. Related policy suggestions are provided in the end. The proposed analysis framework is effcient to disclose CSTFP growth in YREB, and can also be applied to similar analysis on CSTFP in regions and extended to multi-country/region analysis. © 2019 by the authors.
Source Title: Sustainability (Switzerland)
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/212188
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su11236809
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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