Abstract

Most people around the world have felt the effects of climate change on their quality of life. This study sought to achieve the maximum efficiency for climate change actions with the minimum negative impact on the well-being of countries and cities. The Climate Change and Country Success (C3S) and Climate Change and Cities’ Quality of Life (C3QL) models and maps of the world created as part of this research showed that as economic, social, political, cultural, and environmental metrics of countries and cities improve, so do their climate change indicators. For the 14 climate change indicators, the C3S and C3QL models indicated 68.8% average dispersion dimensions in the case of countries and 52.8% in the case of cities. Our research showed that increases in the success of 169 countries saw improvements in 9 climate change indicators out of the 12 considered. Improvements in country success indicators were accompanied by a 71% improvement in climate change metrics.

Details

Title
Synergy of climate change with country success and city quality of life
Author
Kaklauskas, Arturas 1 ; Abraham, Ajith 2 ; Kaklauskiene, Loreta 1 ; Ubarte, Ieva 1 ; Amaratunga, Dilanthi 3 ; Lill, Irene 4 ; Milevicius, Virginijus 1 ; Kaklauskaite, Ulijona 5 

 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania (GRID:grid.9424.b) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 1776) 
 FLAME University, Pune, India (GRID:grid.459524.b) (ISNI:0000 0004 1769 7131) 
 University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK (GRID:grid.15751.37) (ISNI:0000 0001 0719 6059) 
 Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia (GRID:grid.6988.f) (ISNI:0000000110107715) 
 Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania (GRID:grid.6441.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 2243 2806) 
Pages
7872
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2813776885
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.