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2001 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Entry ID:
CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2001
Summary
Abstract:
The 2001 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) utilizes a refined methodology based on the 2000 Pilot ESI effort, to construct an index covering 122 countries that measures the overall progress towards environmental sustainability. The index is a composite measure of the current status of a nation's environmental systems, pressures on those systems, human vulnerability to environmental change, ...
 Purpose: To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability based on lessons learned from the year 2000 pilot effort.
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Geographic Coverage
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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:
2001 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Dataset Release Date:
2001
Dataset Release Place:
New Haven, CT
Dataset Publisher:
Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University
Version:
2001.00
Data Presentation Form:
document, tabular
Online Resource:
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/esi-environmental-sustain...
Temporal Coverage
Start Date:
1980-01-01
Stop Date:
2000-12-31
Location Keywords
Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution:
0.0417 Decimal degrees
Longitude Resolution: 0.0417 Decimal degrees Horizontal Resolution Range: 1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree Science Keywords
ISO Topic Category
Project
Quality
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) provides a database of nearly 4,000 volcanic events categorized from 2 to 8 according to VEI from 79 through 2000 nominally georeferenced to the nearest tenth or hundredth of a degree. Global Volcano Hazard and Frequency was based upon the frequency of volcanic events, irregardless of severity, within a 2.5 minute grid cell. The frequency range was classified into 10 classes of an approximately equal number of grid cells, whereby a higher value denotes a greater risk as posed by volcanic activity. Note that areas of no data are not necessarily without hazard risk but may be an artifact of a mask that excluded from analysis those areas where the population density was less than 5 persons per square kilometer and were without significant agriculture.
Access Constraints
None
Use Constraints
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York and Center for
Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR) hold the copyright of this dataset. Users are ... Ancillary Keywords
Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Originating Center
Data Center
Distribution
Distribution Media:
Online FTP
Distribution Format:
ASCII
Fees:
0
Personnel
Role:
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone:
+1 845-365-8920
Fax:
+1 845-365-8922
Email:
ciesin.info at ciesin.columbia.edu
Contact Address:
61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
City:
Palisades
Province or State:
NY
Postal Code:
10964
Country:
USA
Publications/References
Center for Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR)/Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN)/Columbia University, and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank (2005), Global Volcano Mortality Risks and Distribution, Center for Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR)/Columbia University, Palisades, NY, http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/ndh-volcano-mortality-ris...
Extended Metadata Properties
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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2005-03-30
Last DIF Revision Date:
2013-02-14
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