Urban Construction Land Deployment Based on Ecological Efficiency Malmquist Index.

Rational allocation of the urban construction land is an important task of urbanization in China. This paper, based on Malmquist index model, studies the allocation scheme of construction land of China during urbanization with the carbon emissions caused by the urban land use change as constraints. The major finding of this study is that the ecological efficiency of urban construction land in eastern China is the highest, followed by the middle region, and the efficiency in western China is the lowest. Therefore, the eastern region of China should be allocated with more construction land and the weatern region should be allocated with more agricultural land. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]