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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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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
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Originating Center
AWI
Data Center
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://www.awi.de/en

Data Center Personnel
Name: DR. WILFRIED JOKAT
Phone: +49 471 / 4831- 1211
Fax: +49 471 / 4831- 1149
Email: jokat at awi-bremerhaven.de
Contact Address:
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Geophysics Department
Columbusstrasse
City: Bremerhaven
Postal Code: D - 27568
Country: Germany
Personnel
HARTWIG SCHROETER
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: +49-8153-281400
Fax: +49-8153-281343
Email: schroete at dfd.dlr.de
Contact Address:
DLR/DFD Oberpfaffenhofen
Muenchner Str. 20
City: WESSLING
Postal Code: D-82234
Country: GERMANY
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Publications/References
Fuetterer (1988), Cruise Report ANT-VI, Berichte zur Polarforschung, 58
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Creation and Review Dates
Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-07-29

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