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This paper used a combinated method of two-layer system dynamics and emergy analysis to construct an emergy\u2013system dynamics coupling model for eco-efficiency evaluation from the subsystems of resource flow, energy flow, currency flow and population flow of urban system, which is used to simulate and analyze the eco-efficiency of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration. The results show that the overall eco-efficiency of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration is not high, with an average value of 0.3786, and there is a trend of the value rising first and then falling from 2000 to 2035. The index values of emergy waste rate, contaminant emergy ratio, emergy output rate and environmental load rate after the decomposition of the eco-efficiency show that the high environmental pressure, the low re-use rate of pollutants and the low production efficiency of the system are important reasons for the low eco-efficiency in regional economic development. Finally, through scenario simulation, we propose that optimizing the economic structure, adjusting the population size and rationally arranging the fixed assets investment are conducive to improving the eco-efficiency of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems10030061","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,8]],"date-time":"2022-05-08T23:27:25Z","timestamp":1652052445000},"page":"61","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Eco-Efficiency Assessment of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration Based on Emergy Analysis and Two-Layer System Dynamics"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Huanhuan","family":"Huo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Haiyan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xinzhong","family":"Bao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Management College, Beijing Union University, Beijing 100101, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"10","article-title":"Promoting high-quality economic development with urban agglomerations","volume":"16","author":"Shen","year":"2018","journal-title":"People\u2019s Wkly."},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"33","article-title":"Decoupling relationship between economic growth and resource environment in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region","volume":"18","author":"He","year":"2016","journal-title":"J. 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