[Location: Location_Category='OCEAN', Location_Type='PACIFIC OCEAN', Location_Subregion1='WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN']
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 ... View entire text

Purpose: To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability covering a number of sustainability dimensions.
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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
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Platform
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Project
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Originating Center
WHOI
Data Center
United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/
Dataset ID: eqpac/tt007/optics
Dataset ID: eqpac/tt008/optics
Dataset ID: eqpac/tt012/optics

Data Center Personnel
Name: CINDY CHANDLER
Contact Address:
WHOI
City: Woods Hole
Country: USA
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Distribution
Distribution Media: On-line (World Wide Web)
Personnel
CURTISS O. DAVIS
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: (202) 767-9296
Fax: (202) 404-7453
Email: davis at rira.nrl.navy.mil
Contact Address:
Naval Research Laboratory
Code 7212
City: Washington
Province or State: DC
Postal Code: 20375
Country: USA
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Publications/References
Kirk, J.T.O. 1983. Light and Photosynthesis in Aquatic Ecosystems.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 401 pp.

Gordon, H.R. 1990. Estimation of inherent optical properties from
irradiance measurements: Monte Carlo simulations p.49-54. In: Ocean
Optics X, Proc. SPIE 1302. R.W. Spinrad (ed.)

Mueller, J.L. and R.W. Austin. 1992. Ocean Optical Protocols for
SeaWiFS Validation. SeaWiFS Technical Report Series Vol. 5. NASA
Technical Memorandum 1044566.
Creation and Review Dates
Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-05-13

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