NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) – Hosted by CIESIN at Columbia University

Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity (HANPP)

HANPP by Country and Product, v1 (1995)

Data Source and Acknowledgements

The original work on these data was published in Nature and Journal of Geophysical Research:

  • Imhoff, Marc L., Lahouari Bounoua, Taylor Ricketts, Colby Loucks, Robert Harriss, and William T. Lawrence. 2004. Global patterns in human consumption of net primary production. Nature, 429, 24 June 2004: 870-873.
  • Imhoff, Marc L., and Lahouari Bounoua. 2006. Exploring global patterns of net primary production carbon supply and demand using satellite observations and statistical data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D22S12, doi:10.1029/2006JD007377.

SEDAC would like to acknowledge the co-authors, and especially Marc Imhoff and Lahouari Bounoua, for providing these data for distribution.