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

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 raster representation of nation-states in GPWv3 for use in aggregating population data.

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

To provide a quantitative measure of the input resolution of administrative units used for GPWv3.

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

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 map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in geographic projection which can be used in modeling efforts, wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, policy-making, biodiversity studies and human-environment interactions.