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, ... View entire text

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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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
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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
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Data Center
World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://www.wdc-mare.org

Data Center Personnel
Name: MICHAEL DIEPENBROEK
Phone: +49 421 218 65590
Email: mdiepenbroek at pangaea.de
Contact Address:
Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
University of Bremen
City: Bremen
Postal Code: 28359
Country: GERMANY
Personnel
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: +49 431 600 4444
Fax: +49 431 600 4446
Email: uriebesell at ifm-geomar.de
Contact Address:
Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) Duesternbrooker Weg 20
City: Kiel
Postal Code: 24105
Country: Germany
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2011-05-12
Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-12-19

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