Measuring Countries' Performance in Ecological Security

index focusing on ecological security aspects of eight Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). The index building is based on the
Sustainable Development (SD) Security Model that measures
ecological threats' harm to the regional ecosystem. The ultimate goal
is to construct a tool to manage facets of sustainable regional
development. The research study is focused on G20 countries. The
databank of the World Bank organisation was utilised to get
secondary data of selected security indicators to measure security for
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the G20. The
methodological approach relies on grouping ecological security
indicators (Clustering using the K-Means method). It suggests a
meaningful shortlist of indicators in each group, which would obtain
a structured system of indicators suitable for constructing a novel
Secure Regional Development Index using the multiple criteria
decision-making TOPSIS method that selects the best alternative
from a set of alternatives according to several criteria.