esi: Environmental Sustainability Index 2005

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Description

This data set comes from the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index: Benchmarking National Environmental Stewardship. Countries are given an overall sustainability score as well as scores in each of several different environmental areas.

ESI and Component scores are presented as standard normal percentiles. Indicator scores are in the form of z-scores. See Appendix A of the report for information on the methodology and Appendix C for more detail on original data sources.

Usage

data(esi)

Format

A data frame with 146 observations on the following 29 variables.

code

ISO3 country code.

country

Country.

esi

Environmental Sustainability Index.

system

ESI core component: systems

stress

ESI core component: stresses

vulner

ESI core component: vulnerability

cap

ESI core component: capacity

global

ESI core component: global stewardship

sys_air

Air quality.

sys_bio

Biodiversity.

sys_lan

Land.

sys_wql

Water quality.

sys_wqn

Water quantity.

str_air

Reducing air pollution.

str_eco

Reducing ecosystem stress.

str_pop

Reducing population pressure.

str_was

Reducing waste and consumption pressures.

str_wat

Reducing water stress.

str_nrm

Natural resource management.

vul_hea

Environmental health.

vul_sus

Basic human sustenance.

vul_dis

Exposure to natural disasters.

cap_gov

Environmental governance.

cap_eff

Eco-efficiency.

cap_pri

Private sector responsiveness.

cap_st

Science and technology.

glo_col

Participation in international collaboration efforts.

glo_ghg

Greenhouse gas emissions.

glo_tbp

Reducing transboundary environmental pressures.

Details

For more information on how each of the indices were calculated, see the documentation linked below.

Source

ESI Component Indicators. 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index: Benchmarking National Environmental Stewardship, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University & Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University

In collaboration with: World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy

Available at http://www.yale.edu/esi/

References

Esty, Daniel C., Marc Levy, Tanja Srebotnjak, and Alexander de Sherbinin (2005). 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index: Benchmarking National Environmental Stewardship. New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy

Examples

data(esi)

pch <- ifelse(esi$code == "USA", 19, 1)
plot(esi$cap_st, esi$glo_col, pch=pch)
plot(esi$vulner, esi$cap, pch=pch)

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