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2001 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2001

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Summary

Abstract: The 2001 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) utilizes a refined methodology based on the 2000 Pilot ESI effort, to construct an index covering 122 countries that measures the overall progress towards environmental sustainability. The index is a composite measure of the current status of a nation's environmental systems, pressures on those systems, human vulnerability to environmental change, ...

Purpose: To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability based on lessons learned from the year 2000 pilot effort.

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Link: GET DATA

Description: Data download page.

Link: GET DATA > ECHO

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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: 2001 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

Dataset Release Date: 2001

Dataset Release Place: New Haven, CT

Dataset Publisher: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University

Version: 2001.00

Data Presentation Form: document, tabular

Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/esi-environmental-sustain...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1980-01-01

Stop Date: 2000-12-31

Location Keywords

OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN

CONTINENT > AFRICA > NORTHERN AFRICA > ALGERIA

Service Keywords

DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION >VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING

DATA MANAGEMENT/DATA HANDLING >SUBSETTING/SUPERSETTING

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE >ALTITUDE >GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT

ATMOSPHERE >ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE >SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

ELEVATION

OCEANS

Project

DODS > Distributed Oceanographic Data System

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

Use Constraints The ODC works on virtually any computing platform including the PC, Macintosh
and most Unix- or Linux-based computers.

Ancillary Keywords

Client-server model

remote data access

Service Provider

UCAR/UNIDATA > Unidata, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Service Organization URL: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/

Service Provider Personnel
Name: DODS USER SUPPORT Email: support at unidata.ucar.edu

OPENDAP > OPeNDAP Inc.

Service Organization URL: http://www.opendap.org/

Service Provider Personnel
Name: PETER CORNILLON Phone: (401) 874-6283 Fax: (401) 874-6728 Email: pcornillon at gso.uri.edu Contact Address: Graduate School of Oceanography University of Rhode Island South Ferry Road City: Narragansett Province or State: Rhode Island Postal Code: 02882 Country: USA