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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

SOLID EARTH > GEODETICS > COORDINATE REFERENCE SYSTEM

ISO Topic Category

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Quality Observations are continuous - within the limits of logistics and communications. Original observed data converted into RINEX format.

Access Constraints Data available at the urls below.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

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Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

SCAR WG-GGI

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia

Distribution

Distribution Media: HTTP

Fees: Free

Personnel

SECRETARIAT SCAR WG-GGI

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: +61 2 6201 4201

Fax: +61 2 6201 4366

Email: scar-ggi at ga.gov.au

Contact Address:

Scrivener Building

Fern Hill Park

Dunlop Court

Province or State: Australian Capital Territory

Country: Australia

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 1999-10-07

Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-04-10

Future DIF Review Date: 1999-10-07

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