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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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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

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE

CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT

ISO Topic Category

OCEANS

Platform

DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

AQUA > Earth Observing System, AQUA

Instrument

SSMI > Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

AMSR-E > Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS

Ancillary Keywords

Climate Diagnostics

NASA Code 610

Data Center

Cryospheric Sciences Branch, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Data Center URL: http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/

Data Center Personnel
Name: JOSEFINO (JOEY) C. COMISO Phone: 301 614-5708 Email: josefino.c.comiso at nasa.gov Contact Address: Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes Cryospheric Sciences Branch NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Code 614 City: Greenbelt Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA

Publications/References

Comiso, J. C., R. Kwok, S. Martin, A.L. Gordon (2011), Variability and trends in sea ice extent and ice production in the Ross Sea, 116, J. Geophys. Res., doi:doi:10.1029/2010JC006391

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Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2011-05-17

Last DIF Revision Date: 2013-01-22

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