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 ... View entire text

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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Description: Data in CSV, SAV and DTA formats.
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
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Service Keywords
METADATA HANDLING >AUTHORING TOOLS Parameter Definition

Science Keywords
AGRICULTURE >AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES Parameter Definition
AGRICULTURE >AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS Parameter Definition
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Access Constraints The ORNL Metadata Editor is written in Perl and the version currently available requires a Perl interpreter. This software is known to run under at least on type of Unix (SGI's IRIX 6.5) with Apache and under Windows NT Server 4.0 with Internet Information Server 3.0.
Service Provider
DOE/ORNL > Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy Supplemental Info
Service Organization URL: http://www.ornl.gov/

Service Provider Personnel
Name: ORNL DAAC USER SERVICES OFFICE
Phone: (865) 574-7447
Email: uso at daac.ornl.gov
Contact Address:
ORNL DAAC User Services Office
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
City: Oak Ridge
Province or State: TN
Postal Code: 37831-6407
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: Online FTP
Fees: No fees
Personnel
Role: SERF AUTHOR
Phone: (301) 614-6898
Fax: 301-614-5268
Email: Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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City: Greenbelt
Province or State: MD
Postal Code: 20771
Country: USA
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Creation and Review Dates
SERF Creation Date: 2007-05-03
SERF Last Revision Date: 2011-09-22

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