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Environmental Sustainability Index, 2005 Release (1980 – 2000)

Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

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.

U.S. Population Grids (Summary File 3): New Orleans Metropolitan Statistical Area, alpha (2000)

Population Exposure to Natural Disasters

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of income, poverty, education, and housing age, for New Orleans.

Global Cyclone Hazard Frequency and Distribution, v1 (1980 – 2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Multihazard Frequency and Distribution, v1 (2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Drought Proportional Economic Loss Risk Deciles, v1 (2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Flood Hazard Frequency and Distribution, v1 (1985 – 2003)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Volcano Total Economic Loss Risk Deciles, v1 (2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Multihazard Mortality Risks and Distribution, v1 (2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Earthquake Proportional Economic Loss Risk Deciles, v1 (2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Landslide Mortality Risks and Distribution, v1 (2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Earthquake Hazard Frequency and Distribution, v1 (1976 – 2002)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Drought Mortality Risks and Distribution, v1 (2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Landslide Proportional Economic Loss Risk Deciles, v1 (2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Drought Total Economic Loss Risk Deciles, v1 (2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global Earthquake Mortality Risks and Distribution, v1 (2000)

Natural Disaster Hotspots

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

Global 15 x 15 Minute Grids of the Downscaled GDP Based on the SRES B2 Scenario, v1 (1990, 2025)

Socioeconomic Downscaled Projections

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

Global 15 x 15 Minute Grids of the Downscaled Population Based on the SRES B2 Scenario, v1 (1990, 2025)

Socioeconomic Downscaled Projections

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

HANPP as a Percentage of Net Primary Productivity, v1 (1995)

Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity (HANPP)

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.

Global Patterns of HANPP, v1 (1995)

Human Appropriation of Net Primary Productivity (HANPP)

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

Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI), 2004 Release (1973 – 2003)

Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicators

To provide insights into the processes that can negatively influence the sustainable development of countries, with particular reference to vulnerability to natural hazards.

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