To provide an updated map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in geographic projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global earthquake hazard.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global landslide hazard.

To identify areas of the world that are at greater risk of multihazard proportional economic loss.

To provide a means of assessing global flood mortality risks and distribution.

To identify areas of the world that are at greater risk of multihazard total economic loss.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global drought hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global volcano hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global landslide hazard.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global volcano hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global flood hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global volcano mortality risks and distribution.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global earthquake hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global flood hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global cyclone mortality risks and distribution.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global cyclone hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global cyclone hazard.

To create a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability and to provide a mechanism for making environmental management more quantitative, empirically grounded and systematic.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global cyclone hazard.

To provide insight into the frequency and distribution of multihazard events.