Abstract:
The Rio to Johannesburg Dashboard of Sustainable Development Indicators portion of the Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections contains 35 Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) indicators for 202 countries. Commonly known as the RioJo Dashboard, indicators are from the CSD Thematic Framework from the Rio Summit (1992 UN conference on the Environment and Development) ... to the time of the Johannesburg Summit in 2000. The data are distributed by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
The data in comma-separated values (CSV), SPSS (SAV) and Stata (DTA) formats and a data dictionary for all indicators and ancillary variables in Word (DOC), Portable Document Format (PDF), and Microsoft Access (MDB) formats are available from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
Purpose:
To provide data to gauge broad similarities and differences of national progress on sustainability of countries, over time and relative to other nations.
Quality
This study examined only specific habitat types and creeks.
Access Constraints
Dr. Rankey owns the photos and has a license for the remote sensing images, though the ownership of the images remains with Spaceimaging.com
Use Constraints
1) Must refer to the source 2) For remote sensing data, must cite "Copyright Spaceimaging.com"
Grosvenor Laboratory -N252
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
City:
Miami
Province or State:
Florida
Postal Code:
33149
Country:
USA
Publications/References
Rankey, E.C., 2004, On the interpretation of shallow shelf carbonate facies and habitats: How much does water depth matter? Journal of Sedimentary Research, 74, 2-6.
Rankey, E.C., Spatial patterns of sediment accumulation on a Holocene carbonate tidal flat, northwest Andros Island, Bahamas: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72, 591-601.
