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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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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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Science Keywords
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FIELD INVESTIGATION Ancillary Description
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ACOUSTIC SOUNDERS Ancillary Description
Quality The data is in the publication. Please contact the investigator for more information.
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Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Data Center
Antarctica New Zealand, New Zealand Antarctic Institute, New Zealand Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://www.antarcticanz.govt.nz/

Data Center Personnel
Name: SHULAMIT GORDON
Phone: +64 3 358 0200
Fax: +64 3 358 0211
Email: s.gordon at antarcticanz.govt.nz
Contact Address:
Antarctica New Zealand
Private Bag 4745
City: Christchurch
Country: New Zealand
Personnel
ERROL LEWTHWAITE
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: +64 4 386 0472
Fax: +64 4 386 2153
Email: e.lewthwaite at niwa.co.nz
Contact Address:
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd.
Private Bag 14901
City: Wellington
Postal Code: 6021
Country: New Zealand
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Publications/References
McKendry, I.G. Lewthwaite, E.W.D. 1990 The vertical structure of summertime local winds in the Wright Valley, Antarctica. Boundary-layer meteorology 51(4): 321-342

McKendry, I.G. Lewthwaite, E.W.D. 1992 Summertime along-valley wind variations in the Wright Valley, Antarctica. International journal of climatology 12(6): 587-596
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2009-06-19
Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-07-02

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