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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 ... View entire text

Purpose: To test the feasibility of creating a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability.
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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: 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
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Originating Center
NOAA/OAR/ERL/ETL
Data Center
Environmental Technology Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://www.etl.noaa.gov/

Data Center Personnel
Name: ALFRED J. BEDARD
Contact Address:
Thermodynamic Profiling, R/E/ET
325 Broadway
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80303
Country: USA
Personnel
ALFRED J. BEDARD
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Contact Address:
Thermodynamic Profiling, R/E/ET
325 Broadway
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80303
Country: USA
Publications/References
Bedard, A. J., Jr., and A. A. Rockwood, "The Boulder Colo. Wind-Measuring
Network," Fifth Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation,
April 11-15, 1983. Published by the American Meteorological Society, Boston,
Mass.
Creation and Review Dates
Last DIF Revision Date: 2005-08-09

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