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Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections: Complete Collection, Version 1.1

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_CESIC_COMPLETE_V11

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Summary

Abstract: The Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections contains 426 indicators for 239 countries from five major environmental sustainability indicator efforts: the 2006 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI), 2004 Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI), the Rio to Johannesburg Dashboard, the Wellbeing of Nations, and 2006 National ...

Purpose: To make the acquisition, comparison and analysis of sustainability indicators easier by compiling them in a single database, incorporating multiple country codes, and condensing the indicator descriptions into short methodological summaries in an accompanying data dictionary.

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University

Dataset Title: Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections: Complete Collection, Version 1.1

Dataset Release Date: 2007

Dataset Release Place: Palisades, NY

Dataset Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

Version: 1.01

Data Presentation Form: tabular

Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/cesic-complete-collection...

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1973-01-01

Stop Date: 2005-12-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > AFRICA > NORTHERN AFRICA > ALGERIA

CONTINENT > AFRICA > CENTRAL AFRICA > ANGOLA

Service Keywords

REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES >SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES

METADATA HANDLING >DATA DISCOVERY

WEB SERVICES >DATA APPLICATION SERVICES >GEOGRAPHIC DATA DISCOVERY SERVICES

Science Keywords

AGRICULTURE >AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES

AGRICULTURE >AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS

ISO Topic Category

FARMING

BIOTA

Project

NASA ACCESS > NASA's Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science

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Ancillary Keywords

Datacasting

RSS

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Earth Science

Service Provider

NASA/JPL/ESSD > Earth and Space Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Service Organization URL: http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/

Service Provider Personnel
Name: ANDREW BINGHAM Phone: 818-354-2181 Email: datacasting at list.jpl.nasa.gov Email: andrew.t.bingham at nasa.gov Contact Address: 4800 Oak Grove Drive City: Pasadena Province or State: CA Postal Code: 91109 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: Online

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Personnel

ANDREW BINGHAM

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: 818-354-2181

Email: datacasting at list.jpl.nasa.gov

Email: andrew.t.bingham at nasa.gov

Contact Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive

City: Pasadena

Province or State: CA

Postal Code: 91109

Country: USA

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

Creation and Review Dates

SERF Creation Date: 2010-03-02
SERF Last Revision Date: 2011-06-15

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