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Record Search Query: [Location: Location_Category='CONTINENT', Location_Type='SOUTH AMERICA', Location_Subregion1='AMAZONIA']
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 ... View entire text

Purpose: To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability covering a number of sustainability dimensions.
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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: 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
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Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution: 6000 m
Longitude Resolution: 10000 m
Science Keywords
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GRAB SAMPLERS Ancillary Description
Access Constraints The University of New Haven and the U.S. Geological Survey must be
referenced as the originator of the data set in any future products or
as research derived from these data. Although this derived data set
and its lineage dataset have been used by the University of New Haven
and the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the
University of New Haven or the USGS as to the accuracy of the data
and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute
any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University
of New Haven or the USGS in the use of the data or related materials.
Use Constraints None
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Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Originating Center
USGS
Data Center
Woods Hole Science Center, Coastal and Marine Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/

Data Center Personnel
Name: USGS WHSC COASTAL AND MARINE GEOLOGY PROGRAM
Phone: (508) 548-8700
Fax: (508) 457-2310
Contact Address:
U.S. Geological Survey
384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
Province or State: MA
Postal Code: 02543-1598
Country: USA
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Distribution
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
Distribution Size: 13Kbytes
Distribution Format: ARCView
Fees: none
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Personnel
ROMAN ZAJAC
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 203-932-7114
Email: zajacrn at charger.newhaven.edu
Contact Address:
Biological and Environmental Sciences
University of New Haven
300 Orange Avenue
City: West Haven
Province or State: CT
Postal Code: 06516
Country: USA
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Publications/References
R.N. Reid, A.B. Frame, and A.F. Draxler (comps.). (1979), Environmental baselines in Long Island Sound, 1972-1978,, NOAA Technical Report, SSRF-738

Paskevich, V. and L. J. Poppe, eds., (2000), Georeferenced sea-floor mapping and bottom photography in Long Island Sound - U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-304, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Field Center, http://pubs.usgs.gov/openfile/of00-304/
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2000-08-05
Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-07-01

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