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 an assessment of potential climate change impacts on world crop production, including quantitative estimates of yield changes of major food.

To provide historical agricultural statistics of the People's Republic of China for 1949-1990 at the provincial and national levels.

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

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

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

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

To make the acquisition, comparison and analysis of sustainability indicators easier by compiling them in a single database, incorporating multiple country codes, and condensing the indicator descriptions into short methodological summaries in an accompanying data dictionary.

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

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

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

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

To provide information on China's population and agricultural economy from the 1990 census, and geocoded 1990 China county boundary GIS data at 1:1M.