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

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

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

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

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

To provide a time series of raster data on population density to facilitate data integration.

To provide a time series of raster data on population projected to the year 2015 to facilitate data integration.

To provide maps of the input administrative units used in GPWv3.

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 gridded data on country-level population and downscaled projections based on the SRES B2 marker scenario.

To provide gridded GDP data on country-level downscaled projections based on the SRES B2 marker scenario.

To identify spatial variations in the amount of NPP consumption relative to local production in a way that highlight humanity's growing impact on the biosphere.

To assist in understanding human impacts on the environment, and especially impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services.

To be utilized in conjunction with a data set of human appropriation of net primary productivity (HANPP) in order to understand global energy flows and localized impacts on the environment.

To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability covering a number of sustainability dimensions.

To provide data that address the key issues of sustainability by combining indicators of human wellbeing with those of environmental sustainability to generate a more comprehensive picture of the state of the world.