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    • 2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

    Metadata Updated: April 24, 2025

    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 status of a nation's environmental systems, pressures on those systems, human vulnerability to environmental change, national capacity to respond, and contributions to global environmental stewardship. The index was unveiled at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, January 2000, Davos, Switzerland. The 2000 Pilot ESI is the result of collaboration among the World Economic Forum (WEF), Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP), and the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4X34VDM
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4SB43P8
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H40V89R6

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025
    Publisher SEDAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C179001887-SEDAC
    Data First Published 2000-12-31
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-23
    Category ESI, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.7927/H4NK3BZJ
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -55.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.7927/H4X34VDM, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4SB43P8, https://doi.org/10.7927/H40V89R6
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b97fabce993d3d7f9e094535a2e1f2b1bc2980a27420ed239d6f92aa7787d2f3
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z/1999-12-31T00:00:00Z

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