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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 ...

Purpose: To test the feasibility of creating a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability.

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: 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

Science Keywords

OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS

ISO Topic Category

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

OCEANS

Platform

SHIPS

Instrument

ADCP > Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

Project

IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

SASSI > Synoptic Antarctic Shelf-Slope Interactions Study

Access Constraints To access to the data contact Spanish National Polar Data Centre.

Use Constraints To access to the data contact Spanish National Polar Data Centre.

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados, IMEDEA . UIB-CSIC

Data Center

Centro Nacional de Datos Antarticos, National Antarctic Data Centre, Comite Polar Espanol, Spain

Data Center URL: http://hielo.igme.es/

Data Center Personnel
Name: ANTONIO BARRAGAN SANABRIA Phone: +34913495731 Fax: +34913495929 Email: a.barragan at igme.es Contact Address: Centro Nacional de Datos Antarticos Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana c/Rios Rosas 23 City: Madrid Postal Code: 28003 Country: SPAIN

Personnel

OSCAR BERMUDEZ MOLINA

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +34913495889

Fax: +34913495929

Email: o.bermudez at igme.es

Contact Address:

Centro Nacional de Datos Antarticos

Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana

C/ Rios Rosas 23

City: Madrid

Postal Code: E-28003

Country: SPAIN

DAMIÀ GOMIS

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: +34 971 173236

Fax: +34 971 173426

Email: damia.gomis at uib.cat

Contact Address:

Departamento de Fisica,

Campus Universidad Islles Balears

City: Palma de Mallorca

Province or State: Illes Balears

Postal Code: 07122

Country: España

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2008-11-19

Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-01-12

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