Sustainable development attempts to balance the material and social needs of present populations with the needs of the planet-2015美赛原版-L文.pdfVIP

Team Control Number For office use only For office use only T1 ________________ F1 ________________ T2 ________________ F2 ________________ T3 ________________ F3 ________________ Problem Chosen T4 ________________ F4 ________________ The objective of this model is to establish a comprehensive index that can identify more and less sustainable countries of the world, and to identify target sectors for improvement in sustainability. Identifying the most urgent sustainability issues for a country allows for the formulation of a development plan and can aid in the allocation of resources to reduce instability and increase sustainability. The projected impact of the sustainable development goals are used to forecast the future sustainability of the country. The model assumes that:  Subindex parameter properties are uniform across the data set  Subindices are representative indicators of a network of interconnected factors  Subindex parameters are accurate and unbiased Countries are scored across indices of sustainability: Economic, Institutional, Political, Environmental, Social, and Disaster Susceptibility. Within each category, a variety of subindices are used, taking advantage of big data availability to evaluate the stability of each nation with regard to that category. Explicit documentation of the model and parameters used as well as how they were aggregated can be fou