2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

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

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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

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > EMISSIONS

ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > NITROGEN OXIDES

ISO Topic Category

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

Platform

GROUND STATIONS

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

SHIPS

Instrument

TEMPERATURE SENSORS

Use Constraints Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Ancillary Keywords

Climate Diagnostics

Surface Temperature

Data Center

Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Data Center URL: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/
Dataset ID: Global Temperature Anomalies present during 2007

Data Center Personnel
Name: DR. JAMES E. HANSEN Phone: (212) 678-5500 Email: James.E.Hansen at nasa.gov Contact Address: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies 2880 Broadway City: New York Province or State: New York Postal Code: 10025 Country: USA

Data Center Personnel
Name: LORI PERKINS Email: lori.k.perkins at nasa.gov Contact Address: GSFC, Code 610.3 City: Greenbelt Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA

Publications/References

Hansen, J., Mki. Sato, R. Ruedy, P. Kharecha, A. Lacis, R.L. Miller, L. Nazarenko, K. Lo, G.A. Schmidt, G. Russell, I. Aleinov, S. Bauer, E. Baum, B. Cairns, V. Canuto, M. Chandler, Y. Cheng, A. Cohen, A. Del Genio, G. Faluvegi, E. Fleming, A. Friend, T. Hall, C. Jackman, J. Jonas, M. Kelley, N.Y. Kiang, D. Koch, G. Labow, J. ... Lerner, S. Menon, T. Novakov, V. Oinas, Ja. Perlwitz, Ju. Perlwitz, D. Rind, A. Romanou, R. Schmunk, D. Shindell, P. Stone, S. Sun, D. Streets, N. Tausnev, D. Thresher, N. Unger, M. Yao, and S. Zhang, 2007: Dangerous human-made interference with climate: A GISS modelE study. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 2287-2312.