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.

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

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

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

To identify areas of the world at multihazard mortality risk and to gain insight into the nature of this risk posed.

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