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

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.

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

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 proportional economic impacts of global landslide hazard.

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

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

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

To provide a gridded data on country-level population and 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 provide insights into the processes that can negatively influence the sustainable development of countries, with particular reference to vulnerability to natural hazards.