Assessing city?s performance-resource improvement in China: A sustainable circular economy framework approach

• Main Authors: Wu, Kuo-Jui, Hou, Weiqi, Wang, Qing, Yu, Ren, Tseng, Ming-Lang
• Format: Article
• Published: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC 2022
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/41851/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

A sustainable circular economy accelerates efficiency and decouples wasted natural resource consumption from current economic growth. Many studies have been devoted to exploring the practices and theoretical basis for promoting understanding of and theoretical support for and guiding resource allocation in launching a sustainable circular economy; however, prior studies are insufficient in terms of judging the attributes of resource performance improvement. This study collects quantitative data from the Liaoning Provincial Statistical Yearbook in China. To deal with the above shortcomings, this study proposes a hybrid method using performanceresource analysis and decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory methods to determine how to improve resource allocation. The results confirm that the sustainable circular economy in Liaoning cities has to take industrial emission reduction, hazardous and solid waste reuse, renewable and recycling energy utilization, and natural resource consumption into account to improve resource performance.