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Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections: Complete Collection, Version 1.1

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_CESIC_COMPLETE_V11

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Summary

Abstract: The Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections contains 426 indicators for 239 countries from five major environmental sustainability indicator efforts: the 2006 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI), 2004 Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI), the Rio to Johannesburg Dashboard, the Wellbeing of Nations, and 2006 National ...

Purpose: To make the acquisition, comparison and analysis of sustainability indicators easier by compiling them in a single database, incorporating multiple country codes, and condensing the indicator descriptions into short methodological summaries in an accompanying data dictionary.

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University

Dataset Title: Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections: Complete Collection, Version 1.1

Dataset Release Date: 2007

Dataset Release Place: Palisades, NY

Dataset Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

Version: 1.01

Data Presentation Form: tabular

Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/cesic-complete-collection...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1973-01-01

Stop Date: 2005-12-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > AFRICA > NORTHERN AFRICA > ALGERIA

CONTINENT > AFRICA > CENTRAL AFRICA > ANGOLA

Science Keywords

PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > MACROFOSSILS

PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > SEDIMENTS

PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE

SOLID EARTH > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > TECTONIC LANDFORMS

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GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Platform

FIELD SURVEYS

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

FIELD INVESTIGATION

Instrument

VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

Quality This data was collected for the study of a PhD. Seven remaining rocks samples are held in the PETLAB database of GNS Science, New Zealand. Any other remaining data is in the thesis and publication or please contact Professor Peter Barrett for more information.

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Antarctica New Zealand, New Zealand Antarctic Institute, New Zealand

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

KEN WOOLFE

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Email: Deceased

Publications/References

Woolfe, K.J. 1991. History of Ross Sea sector of Antarctica as recorded by the Beacon supergroup in southern Victoria Land and the Dawin Mountains. PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2009-03-17

Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-05-11

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