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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

BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > AGRICULTURAL LANDS

BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > DOMINANT SPECIES

ISO Topic Category

FARMING

BIOTA

Quality Currently, the World Biodiversity Database contains 206812 taxa in 39
projects.

Access Constraints None

Use Constraints None

Ancillary Keywords

taxonomic identification

biodiversity

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Data Center

Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification

Data Center URL: http://www.eti.uva.nl/

Data Center Personnel
Name: EXPERT CENTER FOR TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION Contact Address: University of Amsterdam, Mauritskade 61 Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification City: Amsterdam, Postal Code: NL-1092 AD Country: The Netherlands