Building a model for securing regional development from ecological threats

Mohammad R. Chehabeddine (), Sabina Grabowska () and Abel Femi Adekola ()
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Mohammad R. Chehabeddine: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Sabina Grabowska: University of Rzeszów, Poland
Abel Femi Adekola: Wilkes University, United States

Insights into Regional Development, 2022, vol. 4, issue 2, 22-40

Abstract: This paper aims to build a Sustainable Development (SD) model that considers ecological threats. We need to identify and measure those threats to prevent them from hindering sustainable regional development. The authors mine the ecological threats' indicators related to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the World Bank database. They found that the ecological threats affect eight SDGs out of the seventeen SDGs, as well as 43 security indicators that measure ecological threats. The obtained results are used to build a Sustainable Development Ecological Security Model made out of selected ecological indicators. The model is instrumental for further constructing an index, which allowed for estimating a level of security of sustainable development from ecological hazards. The study's novelty lies in considering ecological security issues while measuring SD. The obtained results may be instrumental for measuring countries' secure sustainable development and managing the processes through relevant economic policies.

Keywords: Sustainable Development (SD); Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); ecological threats; regional development model; Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); World Bank (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q20 Q51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.9770/ird.2022.4.2(2)

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