A Global Sustainability Development Map. Clustering Countries by Key Indicators
Claudia Diana Sabău-Popa et al.
What the paper says
Sustainable development involves a global process aimed at improving economic and environmental conditions in order to increase the quality of human life for current and future generations.The research aims to investigate in the period 2003-2020 a series of indicators intended to define sustainability through its three pillars (environment, economic, social).Using clustering methods, the countries for which data were identified in the studied period were grouped according to their evolution over time with regard to the values recorded to measure sustainability.Additionally, the classes were grouped separately according to the performances recorded in 2020 in order to be able to make a comparison between what happened over time and where they were at the end of the analysed period.Significant differences could be identified between the obtained clusters, especially between areas of Africa and certain states in Asia and the rest of the world.Some of the most impressive and worrying aspects are related to the limited access of African states to electricity, as well as to clean fuels and technologies for cooking.The results showed that 51 countries out of the 80 examined belong to the same classes regardless of the period for which the clustering was chosen, noting that approximately 81.48% of the states that changed
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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