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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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Platform
MSG > Meteosat Second Generation Ancillary Description
Instrument
SEVIRI > Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager Ancillary Description
Project
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Use Constraints none
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Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Data Center
Global Hydrology Resource Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/
Dataset ID: gripmsg

Data Center Personnel
Name: GHRC USER SERVICES OFFICE
Phone: 256-961-7932
Fax: 256-961-7859
Email: ghrcdaac at itsc.uah.edu
Contact Address:
GHRC User Services Office
Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC)
320 Sparkman Drive
City: Huntsville
Province or State: AL
Postal Code: 35805
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 106 GB total
Distribution Format: binary
Fees: none
Personnel
EUMETSAT USER SERVICE
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: +49 6151 807345
Fax: +49 6151 807538
Contact Address:
Am Kavalleriesand 31
City: Darmstadt
Province or State: Hessen
Postal Code: D-64295
Country: Germany
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Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2011-06-24
Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-06-28

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