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2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2002

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Summary

Abstract: The 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) measures overall progress toward environmental sustainability for 142 countries based on environmental systems, stresses, human vulnerability, social and institutional capacity and global stewardship. The addition of a climate change indicator, reduction in number of capacity indicators, and an improved imputation methodology contributed to an ...

Purpose: To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability covering a number of sustainability dimensions.

Related URL

Link: GET DATA

Description: Data download page.

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: 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

Dataset Release Date: 2002

Dataset Release Place: New Haven, CT

Dataset Publisher: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University

Version: 2002.00

Data Presentation Form: document, tabular, map

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

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > TRACE GASES/TRACE SPECIES

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > NITROGEN COMPOUNDS > NITROGEN DIOXIDE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

SME > Solar Mesospheric Explorer

Instrument

VISIBLE SPECTROMETER

Ancillary Keywords

MIXING RATIO

NITROGEN DIOXIDE

NO2

Originating Center

NSSDC

Data Center

National Space Science Data Center, Space Science Data Operation Office, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Data Center URL: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Dataset ID: 81-100A-04B > Orbit Track NO2 VMR Pfl
Dataset ID: 81-100A-04C > Monthly Avg NO2 VMR Pfl

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSSDC USER SUPPORT OFFICE Email: nssdc-request at lists.nasa.gov Contact Address: National Space Science Data Center NSSDC/Code 633.4 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center City: Greenbelt Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA

Personnel

CHARLES A. BARTH

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Email: Charles.Barth at lasp.colorado.edu

CAROLYN Y. NG

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +1-301-286-1359

Fax: +1-301-286-1771

Email: Carolyn.Y.Ng at nasa.gov

Contact Address:

NASA

Goddard Space Flight Center

Mailstop 672.1

City: Greenbelt

Province or State: MD

Postal Code: 20771

Country: USA

RONALD J. THOMAS

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Email: thomas at nmt.edu

Contact Address:

Electrical Engineering Department

New Mexico Tech

City: Socorro

Province or State: NM

Postal Code: 87801

Country: USA

Publications/References

Unknown (Unknown), Special section on Solar Mesosphere Explorer, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10, 237-268, 1983

Unknown (Unknown), Special section on Solar Mesosphere Explorer, J. Geophys. Res., 10, 1984

Creation and Review Dates

Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-04-07

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