Saudi Journal of Engineering and Technology (SJEAT)
Volume-3 | Issue-03 | 166-176
Original Research Article
An Impact Model of Climate Change on the Development of Country Development: A Case Study on Yemen
Haoran Liu, Li Tian, Xi Yu, Kunpeng Wan, Zhengying Cai
Published : March 30, 2018
Abstract
In the past decade, academic world established a variety of fragile states
index systems. They were generally based on the evaluation of society, environment,
economy and government. Given that climate change has far-reaching impact for the
quality of humankind and the development of a country, we have reasons to believe
that climate change may have increased fragility of a country. We used analytic
hierarchy process and established fuzzy synthetic evaluation models to identify when
a sate is fragile, vulnerable, or stable. And we used the gray correlation method to
analyze the correlation between climate change and each evaluation indicators. Then,
we combined with Yemen's specific situation; we found that climate change makes its
more fragile through the impact to food production, water supply, natural disasters
and other evaluation indicators. We also demonstrated that Yemen will not become
so vulnerable without these adverse weather effects.