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Anthropogenic Biomes version one
The Web site provides access to the spatial data sets described in the paper by Ellis and Ramankutty published in 2008 in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, in which they delineate 21 anthropogenic biomes based on population density, land use, biota, climate, terrain and geology. The anthropogenic biomes are further grouped into six major categories: dense settlements, villages, croplands, rangeland, forested, and wildlands. Available in raster GeoTiff and GRID formats, the data may be downloaded as one global grid or a grid for each of the six populated continents.
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China Dimensions Data Collection
Guides for and access to a rich collection of data resources on the
People's Republic of China. Highlights include digital administrative
boundaries; fundamental GIS layers; county-level data on population,
agriculture, economics and hospitals; and the Atlas of Population,
Environment, and Sustainable Development of China.
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Environmental Performance Index (EPI)>
The EPI utilizes six policy categories—Environmental Health, Air Quality, Water Resources, Productive Natural Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, and Climate Change—to track national-level progress towards internationally recognized environmental policy objectives. The 2008 version includes 149 countries.
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Environmental Sustainability
A Web site providing access to data from a wide range of environmental sustainability indicator efforts; related citations and information; and access to geospatial data. A compendium of environmental sustainability indicator collections has 426 variables from six separate efforts, and useful ancillary data. Files are downloadable in CSV, SPSS, and Stata formats.
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Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
An interdisciplinary data set on overall progress towards environmental sustainability at the national level. Produced in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2005, the 2005 version has 72 variables, 21 indicators, and five components in addition to the overall index score for 146 countries.
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Environmental Treaty Conference of Party (ENTRI COP) Decision Documents
Full text decision documents for all meetings of the conference of parties (COPs) of ten major international environmental agreements.
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Environmental Treaty Texts
Full text of more than 140 international environmental agreements.
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Georeferenced Population Data Sets of Mexico
Data set description and access
to various population GIS coverages of Mexico.
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Global Distribution of Poverty
A Web site offering global data sets of malnutrition and infant mortality rates in tables, shapefiles, and grids (1/4 degree and 2.5 minute); national data sets of small area estimate consumption-based poverty and inequality indicators, basic needs indicators for Latin America, and poverty and food security case study data in tables and shapefiles; and maps, catalogs, and metadata.
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Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)
The central data product (Gridded Population of the World with Urban Reallocation) adds urban/rural specification to the Gridded Population of the World (see below) and has a grid cell resolution of 30 arc-seconds. Currently in alpha.
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Gridded Population of the World
Global demographic data set providing consistent population and population density estimates referenced to a grid of 2.5 X 2.5 minute latitude-longitude quadrilateral grids for 1990–2015 in five-year increments. Collection includes maps, documentation, and data for online viewing and downloading.
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Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity (HANPP)
A Web site describing global spatial data sets used to analyze global patterns in human consumption of net primary productivity (NPP). Data sets include a satellite-derived quarter-degree NPP grid; an intermediate model of human appropriation of NPP (low and high variants of HANPP were also produced but are not distributed here); and the HANPP as a percent of NPP. The spatial data are provided in raster GRID and compressed GeoTIFF formats. Raster cell sizes are one-quarter degree.
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Human Footprint
This data set’s analysis indicates that 83 percent of Earth’s land surface is influenced directly by humans—through human land use; human access from roads, railways or major rivers; electrical infrastructure (indicated by lights detected at night); or direct occupancy by human beings at densities above one person per square kilometer. Available in Band Interleaf (BIL) format.
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IPCC Socioeconomic Data Distribution Centre
The socioeconomic section of the Data Distribution Centre (DDC) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), providing access to baseline and scenario data related to population, economic development, technology, and natural resources for use in climate impact assessments.
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Last of the Wild
Created to facilitate policy making aimed at conserving the last of the world’s wild areas—those areas least influenced by human activities. From this Web site you can download the Last of the Wild data set in BIL and ArcInfo Exchange (.e00) formats.
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Low Elevation Coastal Zone Urban-Rural Estimates (LECZ)
Country-level estimates were generated globally using Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) alpha population and land area data products and a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) derived from Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) remote sensing data. The zone was derived from the DEM by selecting all land contiguous with the coast that was 10 meters or less in elevation. All grids (population, land area, urban mask and LECZ) are at 1 km (30 arc-second) resolution.
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Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
Published by the World Bank, this study produced a set of global geospatial data on six major natural hazards and associated risks of mortality and
economic loss.
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Population, Landscape, and Climate Estimates (PLACE)
A data set allowing cross-country comparisons of
measures such as the number of persons living within 100 kilometers of a
coast; the percent of territory above 2,000 meters; and the number of
persons within different climatic zones. Included are
estimates of national-level aggregations for
biome; climate; coastal proximity; elevation; and
population density.
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Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS)
Microdata from the decennial
U.S. censuses of 1970–1990.
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Species Distribution Grids
This Web site provides a search facility for quickly
locating and downloading 1-kilometer (30 arc-second) resolution grids of the distribution of species. Data are available for global amphibian
distributions, and for birds and mammals in the Americas. SEDAC provides
individual species distribution grids along with family grids that show the density and distribution of species within a given family.
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U.S. Census Grids
Comprised of gridded data sets for a wide variety
of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of individuals,
households, and housing units. The data are available at 30 arc-second
resolution for the continental United States, the 50 states, the
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico; and at 7.5
arc-second resolution for the 50 largest metropolitan statistical areas.
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Urban Landsat: Cities From Space
This Web site provides composite data products that facilitate characterizations of the physical properties of urban land cover. The data available for download include 78 JPEG images of various urban areas throughout the world, as well as binary, raw input data for a subset (28 total) of these places. Each image shows a Landsat false color composite in UTM projection, collected by Landsat 5 (pre-1999) or Landsat 7. The R/G/B layers correspond to TM/ETM+ bands 7/4/2.
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World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment (WDC)
The WDC provides access to global-scale data sets addressing the human dimensions of global environmental change. Access data by browsing the list of WDC holdings (SEDAC-approved data, global in scale); by using the Geonetwork search tool to search the WDC and distributed catalogs; or by browsing through the thematic portals.
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See Also the A–Z list of SEDAC Data Sets 
