Accounting and Statistical Analyses for Sustainable Development

The Atlantic hurricane season terminated for this term with category-5 hurricanes such as Dorian (National Weather Service, 2019). Because of climate change, intense and damaging hurricanes are three times more frequent nowadays than 100 years ago (Grinsted, Ditlevsen & Hesselbjerg, 2019; McGrath, 2019). Likewise, scientific evidence suggests that climate change made Europe’s major heatwave in 2018 more than twice as likely to occur (Schiermeier, 2018; World Weather Attribution, 2018). Less dominant in public but at higher and more alarming risk than climate change is the genetic biodiversity of the biosphere (Steffen et al., 2015). Extinction rates may be 100 to 1,000 times higher than corresponding natural background rates (Ceballos et al., 2015; de Vos, Joppa, Gittleman, Stephens & Pimm, 2015). These examples demonstrate the abandonment of the Holocene and the entering of the Anthropocene, a new geological
era that is characterised by threatening human activities towards fundamental Earth system dynamics (e.g. Griggs et al., 2013; Rockstr¨om et al., 2009b; Sachs, 2012). In addition to that, humanitarian crises persist
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