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Characteristics and prediction of agricultural ecological efficiency for coordination between economy and environment

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  • Lijun Ma
  • Fengyu Guo
  • Zhaoya Chen
  • Jingyi Meng
  • Lei Xu
  • Shi Yin

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Agricultural ecological efficiency is an important tool with which to measure the coordination of the sustainable development of agricultural economies and ecological environments. In this paper, a super-efficiency slacks-based measures model was used to measure the agricultural ecological efficiency in Hebei Province. The characteristics of spatial and temporal evolution patterns were explored using a spatial Markov transfer matrix. The results showed that (i) based on measurements, the agricultural ecological efficiency in Hebei Province showed regional differences in four regions (eastern, northern, central and southern Hebei) and 141 counties; (ii) from the perspective of evolutionary characteristics of agricultural ecological efficiency, the overall development of in Hebei Province was good, with more concentrated spatial distribution and more obvious direction, while the type of transfer of agricultural ecological efficiency in Hebei Province showed strong stability that was significantly affected by geographical neighborhood conditions and the club convergence phenomenon; (iii) from the perspective of the long-term evolutionary trend of agricultural ecological efficiency, the areas adjacent to counties with low efficiency had limited potential for improvement, and the areas adjacent to counties with high grade had great potential. However, it was difficult to achieve large-scale improvement in agricultural ecological efficiency in Hebei Province, whether the impact of geospatial backgrounds was considered or not.

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  • Lijun Ma & Fengyu Guo & Zhaoya Chen & Jingyi Meng & Lei Xu & Shi Yin, 2024. "Characteristics and prediction of agricultural ecological efficiency for coordination between economy and environment," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(5), pages 1-22, May.
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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0302971
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