| Abstract [eng] |
The concept of secure regional development (RD) is an alternative to secure sustainable development (SD), which places sustainability at the centre of interest. Minimising the impact of regional threats (RT) is essential for ensuring sustainable and secure regional development. The literature analysis of contemporary regional threats (RT) shows that ecological threats (ET) harm regions’ sustainability. The security of sustainability against ecological threats requires securing the associated sustainable development goals (SDGs) related to the security facets of the planet security theme of SDGs, which are related to ecological threats. This concept guides a sustainable development model that considers these security facets since the existing security models do not consider contemporary global ecological threats related to SDGs’ security facets. The dissertation examines ecological threats in the context of sustainable development goals. It suggests a model of securing SDGs against eco-logical threats for securing regional development (RD). The proposed model would allow the construction of an ecological security tool, providing the possibility of managing the security of regional development facets. The security indicators related to securing from these threats were selected from the World Bank’s SDGs database following the created ecological security model. Secondary data on the indicators for the G20 group countries were collected from the World Bank from 2010 to 2019. The research addresses the following tasks: constructing an ecological security tool to measure secure, sustainable development levels in selected countries. The tool is created by developing a set of security indicators and clustering them using the k-means method; then finding the main cluster by studying the relationship among the six clusters that control and impact them, weighing the main cluster indicators, and ranking their four sustainability aspects by experts, then obtaining the best alternatives using (MCDA-TOPSIS) method to get the weight of each security indicator along with ranking G20 countries according to the four sustainability aspects, and analysing the obtained results. This ecological security tool evaluates and ranks the ecological security performance of the G20 countries and compares the results among the G20 countries. Furthermore, the outcome of the security tool for any G20 country should be analysed, and the weaknesses should be highlighted to enhance the ecological security performance whenever possible. The dissertation is divided into three chapters, a conclusion and an introduction. |
