Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)

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Environmental Sustainability Index, 2002 Release (1980 – 2000)

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Originator: World Economic Forum - WEF - Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, and Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University
Publication Date: 20021231
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2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
Edition: 2002.00
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Publication Place: New Haven, CT
Publisher: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)/Yale University
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Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4SB43P8
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The 2002 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) measures overall progress toward environmental sustainability for 142 countries based on environmental systems, stresses, human vulnerability, social and institutional capacity and global stewardship. The addition of a climate change indicator, reduction in number of capacity indicators, and an improved imputation methodology contributed to an improvement from the 2001 ESI. The index was unveiled at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, January 2002, New York. The 2002 ESI is the result of collaboration among the World Economic Forum (WEF), Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP), and the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
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To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability covering a number of sustainability dimensions.
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Users are free to use, copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work for commercial and non-commercial purposes, without restriction, as long as clear attribution of the source is provided.
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2000 Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
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Originator: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University, World Economic Forum - WEF, and Joint Research Centre - JRC - European Commission
Publication Date: 20051231
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2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)
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CIESIN follows procedures designed to ensure that data disseminated by CIESIN are of reasonable quality. If, despite these procedures, users encounter apparent errors or misstatements in the data, they should contact SEDAC User Services at +1 845-365-8920 or via email at ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu. Neither CIESIN nor NASA verifies or guarantees the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of any data provided. CIESIN provides this data without warranty of any kind whatsoever, either expressed or implied. CIESIN shall not be liable for incidental, consequential, or special damages arising out of the use of any data provided by CIESIN.
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The report of the methodologies and the results, the ESI, component, component, indicator and variable scores for all countries in Portable Document Format (.pdf), and Microsoft Excel (.xls) formats; and the maps in Portable Document Format (.pdf), and Portable Network Graphics (.png) formats are available from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
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