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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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  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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Platform
GROUND STATIONS Ancillary Description
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS Ancillary Description
Instrument
Scatterometers Ancillary Description
Project
Access Constraints These data are restricted to CLPX investigators until April 2004.
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Data Set Progress
IN WORK
Data Center
NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Dataset ID: NSIDC-0166

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES
Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199
Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468
Email: nsidc at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
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Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 12.8 MB
Distribution Format: ASCII (Tab-delimited)
Personnel
KAMAL SARABANDI
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: (734) 936 1575
Fax: (734) 647 2106
Email: saraband at eecs.umich.edu
Contact Address:
University of Michigan
1301 Beal Avenue
City: Ann Arbor
Province or State: MI
Postal Code: 48109-2122
Country: USA
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Publications/References
Tassoudji, M. A., K. Sarabandi and F.T. Ulaby, Design consideration and implementation of the LCX polarimetric scatterometer (POLARSCAT), RadiationLaboratory Report No 022486-T-2, The University of Michigan, June 1989.

Kendra, J. R., Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow: An Empirical/Theoretical Scattering Model for Dense Random Media. Ph. D. thesis, Univ. of Michigan, Sept.1995.

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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2003-08-26
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-05-14

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