"This book addresses the myriad of practical uses and innovative developments of data envelopment analysis, emphasizing the importance of analyzing productivity by measuring inputs, goals, economic growth, and performance"--Provided by publisher.

This book helps to solve the problem of substantial waste and inefficiency in port production by analyzing operational efficiency at more than 30 Chinese and Korean leading container ports using three types of DEA model. In addition it offers a returns-to-scale analysis, which is particularly...

Contents: 1. Introduction / Tiho Ancev, M. A. Samad Azad and Francesc Hernández Sancho -- 2. Environmentally adjusted productivity and efficiency: a review of concepts, methods and empirical work / Tiho Ancev, M. A. Samad Azad and Mahmuda Akter -- 3. Modeling pollution abatement technologies as...