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2001 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2001

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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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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: 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

OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN

CONTINENT > AFRICA > NORTHERN AFRICA > ALGERIA

Science Keywords

OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > NUTRIENTS

OCEANS > OCEAN HEAT BUDGET

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

OCEANS

Platform

SHIPS

Quality At this juncture this dataset is complete Two stations were set up to allow sampling at various depths throughout the water column. The stations were in 25-30m and over 100m of water. Hydrology, plankton, water temperatures, and radiation measurements were made at each station. Please see the reference given above for further details relating to the stations, and sample methods used. As no evidence to the contrary has been established, it is concluded that this dataset is logically consistent.

Access Constraints See the investigator for details.

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 the URL below when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

zooplankton

phytoplankton

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

AAD

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

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