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2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2002

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Summary

Abstract: The 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) measures overall progress toward environmental sustainability for 142 countries based on environmental systems, stresses, human vulnerability, social and institutional capacity and global stewardship. The addition of a climate change indicator, reduction in number of capacity indicators, and an improved imputation methodology contributed to an ...

Purpose: To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability covering a number of sustainability dimensions.

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: 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

Dataset Release Date: 2002

Dataset Release Place: New Haven, CT

Dataset Publisher: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University

Version: 2002.00

Data Presentation Form: document, tabular, map

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

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY

ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Project

UNEP/GRID > UNEP/Global Resources Information Database

Ancillary Keywords

CLIMATOLOGY

CLOUDINESS

Originating Center

UNEP/GRID-Geneva

Data Center

Global Resource Information Database - Geneva, Division of Early Warning and Assessment, United Nations Environment Programme

Data Center URL: http://www.grid.unep.ch/

Data Center Personnel
Name: HY DAO Phone: 41-22-917-82-25 Fax: 41-22-917-80-29 Email: Hy.Dao at unep.org Contact Address: Head of Metadata & Socio-Economics Unit City: Geneva Postal Code: 1219 Country: SWITZERLAND

Personnel

WOLFGANG P. CRAMER

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: +49-331-288-2521

Fax: +49-331-288-2600

Contact Address:

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Telegrafenberg

P.O.Box 60 12 03

City: Potsdam

Postal Code: D-144 12

Country: Germany

RIK LEEMANS

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: 31-30-274-3377

Fax: 31-30-274-4435

Email: rik.leemans at rivm.nl

Contact Address:

National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)

P.O. Box 1

3720 BA Bilthoven

Country: NETHERLANDS

HY DAO

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: 41-22-917-82-25

Fax: 41-22-917-80-29

Email: Hy.Dao at unep.org

Contact Address:

Head of Metadata & Socio-Economics Unit

City: Geneva

Postal Code: 1219

Country: SWITZERLAND

Publications/References

Leemans, Rik and Wolfgang P. Cramer, 1991. The IIASA Database for Mean
Monthly Values of Temperature, Precipitation and Cloudiness of a Global
Terrestrial Grid. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, RR-91-18, 62 pages.

Creation and Review Dates

Last DIF Revision Date: 2010-02-24

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