How States Become Fragile: Relevancy of State Fragility and Climate Change

The objective of this article is to develop a main index that is capable of determining a state, s fragility and simultaneously measuring the impact of climate change. Six indexes are defined including a dummy one, which are Political Conditions, Economic Conditions, Social Conditions, Demographic F...

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Published inE3S web of conferences Vol. 53; p. 3013
Main Authors Zhang, Sirui, Chen, Jiebin, Wu, Hao-Ning, Ye, Shiqi
Format Journal Article Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Les Ulis EDP Sciences 01.01.2018
Subjects
Climate change
Decision making
Economic conditions
Environmental impact
Fragility
Social conditions
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Summary:The objective of this article is to develop a main index that is capable of determining a state, s fragility and simultaneously measuring the impact of climate change. Six indexes are defined including a dummy one, which are Political Conditions, Economic Conditions, Social Conditions, Demographic Factor, Public Security and State Unrest (dummy). Five non-dummy indexes are involved four sub-indexes respectively. The sum of these six indexes is reported as State Stability Index (SSI). Entropy method and group decision making serve as weighting models to determine weights of sub-indexes and indexes respectively. A state, s fragility is determined by State Fragility Index (SFI), which is the reciprocal of SSI. Five non-dummy indexes and SFI have their standards obtained by K-means, in order to determine whether a state is fragile, vulnerable or stable.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Conference Proceeding-1
SourceType-Conference Papers & Proceedings-1
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ISSN:2267-1242
2555-0403
2267-1242
DOI:10.1051/e3sconf/20185303013