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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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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: 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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Quality This metadata record describes a dataset that has been found in the
Data-Unknown section of the Australian Antarctic Data Centre servers.

It is highly likely that these data relate to a paper by Clive McMahon, which is referenced below.

The Australian Antarctic Data Centre cannot guarantee the quality of these data.

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Access Constraints These data are available for download from the provided URL. A copy of the referenced paper is also available for download from the provided URL.
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 at the provided URL when using these data.
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Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Data Center
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Supplemental Info
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
Distribution
Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 7 kb
Distribution Format: excel
Fees: free

Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 1,692 kb
Distribution Format: pdf
Fees: free
Personnel
CLIVE MCMAHON
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Email: c.r.mcmahon at swansea.ac.uk
Contact Address:
University of Wales Swansea
Singleton Park
City: Swansea
Province or State: Wales
Postal Code: SA2 8PP
Country: United Kingdom
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Publications/References
McMahon, C.R., Holley, D., Robinson, S. (1999) The diet of itinerant male Hooker's sea lions, Phocarctos hookeri , at sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Wildlife Research 26. 839-846
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2006-11-29
Last DIF Revision Date: 2010-07-28

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