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 a map of the wildest areas in Interrupted Goode Homosoline Projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide a map of the wildest areas in geographic projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide a map of wild areas in the Interrupted Goode Homosoline Projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide a map of wild areas in geographic projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide a map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in the Interrupted Goode Homosoline Projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

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.

To provide tabular data on environmental conditions (elevations, climate, coastal) in which people reside.

To provide population estimates, gross domestic product, and surface area data to be used in conjunction with the sustainability indicators included in the compendium.

To provide quantitative metrics for evaluating a country's environmental performance in different policy categories relative to clearly defined targets.