Abstract
The research aims to construct a novel secure regional development 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.
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