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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.

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• 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.

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ESI Component Indicators. \emph{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. }

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