[ISO_Topic_Category='ENVIRONMENT']
2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2000

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Summary
Abstract: The 2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) is an exploratory effort to construct an index that measures the ability of a nation's economy to achieve sustainable development, with the long term goal of finding a single indicator for environmental sustainability analagous to that of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The index covering 56 countries is a composite measure of the current ... View entire text

Purpose: To test the feasibility of creating a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability.
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: 90.0   S: -55.0   E: 180.0   W: -180.0

Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University, and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University
Dataset Title: 2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Dataset Release Date: 2000
Dataset Release Place: New Haven, CT
Dataset Publisher: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University
Version: 2000.00
Data Presentation Form: document
Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/esi-pilot-environmental-s...
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1978-01-01
Stop Date: 1999-12-31
Location Keywords
OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN
CONTINENT > AFRICA > NORTHERN AFRICA > ALGERIA
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Science Keywords
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Platform
AIRCRAFT Ancillary Description
Instrument
RADAR > Radio Detection and Ranging Ancillary Description
Quality Values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only.

See the reports for further information.

Some notes about accessing the data:

In the "Rad Program - radar" folder there is an exe file that allows you to read the radar files.

The "Raw" folders contain the radar data that you need the above exe for.

The GPS data came from a Leica device - and you may need software from Leica to read it. The appropriate program was called SKI. Tasmanian University surveying group may still have access to it - Rachel Manson or Chris Watson. However, the outputs from the GPS data are held in the velocity files anyway.
Access Constraints These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL. A copy of the two main reports relating to the work are also available for download from the provided URL.
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_2085 when using these data.
Ancillary Keywords
Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Data Center
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC
Phone: +61 3 6232 3244
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: metadata at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
Distribution
Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 1.3 GB
Distribution Format: Binary, Text
Fees: Free

Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 26.3 MB
Distribution Format: PDF
Fees: Free
Personnel
JO JACKA
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: +61 3 6232 3365
Fax: +61 3 6226 2902
Email: jo.jacka at utas.edu.au
Contact Address:
ACE CRC AND
AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION
GPO BOX 252-80
City: Hobart
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7001
Country: Australia
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2000-08-11
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-05-31

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