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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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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: 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

Service Keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT/DATA HANDLING >CATALOGING

Science Keywords

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION >ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES >FISH

BIOSPHERE >AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

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Ancillary Keywords

Fish

Ecology

Service Provider

WFC/FB > FishBase, WorldFish Center

Service Organization URL: http://www.fishbase.org/

Service Provider Personnel
Name: FISHBASE Phone: +1 (63-2) 812-8641 Phone: 840-3485 Fax: +1 (63-2) 816-3183 Email: fishbase at cgiar.org Contact Address: ICLARM/FishBase ICLARM - FishBase Project c/o IRRI, College, Los Banos City: Laguna Postal Code: 4031 Country: Philippines

Distribution

Distribution Media: CD-ROM

Distribution Format: Access Database

Fees: $95 US dollars

Distribution Media: electronic

Distribution Format: html

Personnel

RAINER FROESE

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Fax: +49 431 600 1699

Email: rfroese at ifm-geomar.de

Contact Address:

Leibniz-Institut fur Meereswissenschaften an der Universitat Kiel

20, Dusternbrooker Weg

City: Kiel

Postal Code: 24105

Country: Germany

TYLER B. STEVENS

Role: SERF AUTHOR

Phone: (301) 614-6898

Fax: 301-614-5268

Email: Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov

Contact Address:

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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City: Greenbelt

Province or State: MD

Postal Code: 20771

Country: USA

Publications/References

Fish Base has been reviewed by R.A. McCall and R.M. May in Nature, Vol.
378:735, 31 August 1995, and by K. Matsuura in the Japanese Journal of
Ichthyology, Vol. 42 (3/4):342.

Creation and Review Dates

SERF Creation Date: 1999-12-15
SERF Last Revision Date: 2012-01-10

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