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2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Entry ID:
CIESIN_SEDAC_ESI_2000
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.
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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
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Role:
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone:
1-866-845-1553
Phone:
803-734-9560
Fax:
803-734-9573
Email:
SeaBreeze at dnr.sc.gov
Contact Address:
1000 Assembly St.
Suite 230
City:
Columbia
Province or State:
South Carolina
Postal Code:
29201
Country:
USA
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