NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) – Hosted by CIESIN at Columbia University

Climate Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation

Managing Urban Growth and Flood Risk in a Changing Climate/South and Southeast Asia

World Development Report 2010 – March 16, 2010
map of Port Phillip Bay

The SEDAC data set Low-elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) is the basis for a set of national-level indicators of the total area and population in the LECZ circa 2000. Map 2.2 (page 94), Chapter 2 of the World Development Report 2010, Managing Urban Growth and Flood Risk in a Changing Climate in South and Southeast Asia.  

Geo Quiz

PRI’s The World – June 10, 2009
Geo Quiz

The report on linkages between climate and migration, In Search of Shelter, is featured in a daily geography quiz of the public radio program, PRI’s The World.

A Catalog of Change

Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features 2009 – November 11, 2009
CIESIN’s role in making climate change data freely available to the public is noted in an article in this annual collection of articles about how scientists use Earth science data to learn about the planet.

SEDAC′s role in making climate change data freely available to the public is noted in a collection of articles on how scientists use Earth science data to learn about the planet.