2007 Natural Resource Management Index (NRMI)
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Identification Information
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Citation:
Citation Information:
Originator: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP), Yale University
Publication Date: 2007
Title: 2007 Natural Resource Management Index (NRMI)
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: tabular digital data
Publication Information:
Publication Place: Palisades, NY
Publisher: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), Columbia University
Online Linkage: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/es/mcc.html
Description:
Abstract:
The 2007 Natural Resources Management Index (NRMI) is a composite index for 160 countries derived from the average of four proximity-to-target scores from eco-region protection, access to improved sanitation, access to improved water and child mortality indicators. The 2007 NRMI is produced by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP) and distributed by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
Purpose: To assist in the country selection process for the Millennium Challenge Account by providing indicators of natural resource management that complement the governance, social, and economic indicators.
Time Period of Content:
Time Period Information:
Range of Dates/Times:
Beginning Date: 2004
Ending Date: 2007
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency: As needed
Spatial Domain:
Bounding Coordinates:
West Bounding Coordinate: -180.000000
East Bounding Coordinate: 180.000000
North Bounding Coordinate: 90.000000
South Bounding Coordinate: -55.000000
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: GCMD Parameter Valids
Theme Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Biodiversity
Theme Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Terrestrial Ecosystems > Alpine/Tundra
Theme Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Terrestrial Ecosystems > Forests
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: CSA-NBII Biocomplexity
Theme Keyword: Biodiversity
Theme Keyword: Natural Resources
Theme Keyword: Resource Management
Theme Keyword: Sanitation
Theme Keyword: Water Resources
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: Data Granularity
Theme Keyword: Country
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: EI Gateway Vocabulary
Theme Keyword: Natural Resources
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: GIS Format
Theme Keyword: Non-GIS
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: General
Theme Keyword: Biodiversity Protection
Theme Keyword: Biome Protection
Theme Keyword: Child Mortality
Theme Keyword: Ecoregion Protection
Theme Keyword: Habitat Preservation
Theme Keyword: Improved Sanitation
Theme Keyword: Improved Water Supply
Theme Keyword: Natural Resources Management
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: ISO Topic
Theme Keyword: Environment
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: Project
Theme Keyword: Natural Resources Management Index (NRMI)
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: NASA Mission
Theme Keyword: Environmental Sustainability (ES)
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: NBII Node
Theme Keyword: Northeast Information Node (NIN)
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: SEDAC Topic
Theme Keyword: Sustainability Indicators
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: WDC Theme
Theme Keyword: Sustainability
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: CIESIN Indexing Vocabulary Version 2.1 (GCMD Format)
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Environmental Protection > Biodiversity > Endangered Species
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Environmental Protection > Biodiversity > Protected Species
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Environmental Protection > Biodiversity > Threatened Species
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Environmental Protection > Ecology > Habitats
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Environmental Protection > Sewage Treatments > Sewers
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Environmental Protection > Tanks > Septic Tanks
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Environmental Protection > Wastewater Treatments > Sanitation Devices
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Environmental Protection > Water Forms > Water Supply System
Theme Keyword: CIESIN > Human and Environmental Health > Vital Statistics > Infant Mortality
Place:
Place Keyword Thesaurus: CIESIN Location Terms, version 2.0
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Africa
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Asia
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Australia
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Caribbean
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Central America
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > East Asia
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Equatorial
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Europe
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Gaza Strip
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Global
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Middle East
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Mid-Latitude
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > North Africa
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > North America
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Oceania
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Polar
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > South America
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > South Asia
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > Southeast Asia
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > West Africa
Place Keyword: Continent/Region > West Bank
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Afghanistan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Albania
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Algeria
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Angola
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Argentina
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Armenia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Australia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Austria
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Azerbaijan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Bahamas
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Bangladesh
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Barbados
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Belarus
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Belize
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Benin
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Bhutan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Bolivia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Bosnia and Herzegovina
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Botswana
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Brazil
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Bulgaria
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Burkina Faso
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Burundi
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Cambodia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Cameroon
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Canada
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Cape Verde
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Central African Republic
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Chad
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Chile
Place Keyword: Country/Island > China
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Colombia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Comoros
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Costa Rica
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Cote D'Ivoire
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Croatia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Cuba
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Cyprus
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Czech Republic
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Democratic Republic of the Congo
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Djibouti
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Dominican Republic
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Ecuador
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Egypt
Place Keyword: Country/Island > El Salvador
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Equatorial Guinea
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Eritrea
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Estonia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Ethiopia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Fiji
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Finland
Place Keyword: Country/Island > French Guiana
Place Keyword: Country/Island > French Polynesia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Gabon
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Gambia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Georgia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Germany
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Ghana
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Guadeloupe
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Guam
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Guatemala
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Guinea
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Guinea-Bissau
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Guyana
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Haiti
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Honduras
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Hungary
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Iceland
Place Keyword: Country/Island > India
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Indonesia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Iran
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Iraq
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Jamaica
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Japan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Jordan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Kazakhstan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Kenya
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Kyrgyzstan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Laos
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Latvia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Lebanon
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Lesotho
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Liberia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Libya
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Madagascar
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Malawi
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Malaysia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Maldives
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Mali
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Mauritania
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Mauritius
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Mexico
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Micronesia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Mongolia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Morocco
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Mozambique
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Myanmar
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Namibia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Nepal
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Netherlands
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Nicaragua
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Niger
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Nigeria
Place Keyword: Country/Island > North Korea
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Oman
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Pakistan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Palestine
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Panama
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Papua New Guinea
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Paraguay
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Peru
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Philippines
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Pitcairn Islands
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Qatar
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Republic of the Congo
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Romania
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Russia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Rwanda
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Saint Lucia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Samoa
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Sao Tome and Principe
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Serbia and Montenegro
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Singapore
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Slovakia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Solomon Islands
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Somalia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > South Africa
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Spain
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Sri Lanka
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Sudan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Suriname
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Swaziland
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Sweden
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Switzerland
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Syria
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Tajikistan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Tanzania
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Thailand
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Togo
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Tonga
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Trinidad and Tobago
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Tunisia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Turkey
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Turkmenistan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Uganda
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Ukraine
Place Keyword: Country/Island > United Arab Emirates
Place Keyword: Country/Island > United States
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Uruguay
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Uzbekistan
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Vanuatu
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Venezuela
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Vietnam
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Yemen
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Zambia
Place Keyword: Country/Island > Zimbabwe
Access Constraints: None
Use Constraints:
The Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP) holds the copyright of this dataset. Users are prohibited from any commercial sale or free redistribution without explicit written permission from YCELP. Users should acknowledge YCELP and CIESIN as the source used in the creation of any reports, publications, new datasets, derived products, or services resulting from the use of this dataset. YCELP and CIESIN also request reprints of any publications and notification of any redistributing efforts.
Point of Contact:
Contact Information:
Contact Organization Primary:
Contact Organization: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) User Services
Contact Address:
Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address: CIESIN, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
City: Palisades
State or Province: NY
Postal Code: 10964
Country: USA
Contact Voice Telephone: +1 845-365-8920
Contact Facsimile Telephone: +1 845-365-8922
Contact Electronic Mail Address: ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu
Data Quality Information
Section Index
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Process Step:
Process Description:
The NRMI is computed as a standardized proximity-to-target for each of the four measures. For Access to Adequate Sanitation and Access to Improved Water, the proximity-to-target measure is equal to the reported percentage. For example, if a country has 84% of its population with access to adequate sanitation, it is considered to have a proximity-to-target score of 84. For child mortality, we compute the ratio of the measured mortality to the highest observed mortality, which is 40.25, and multiply that by 100 to make it comparable to the 0-100 scale used in the other measures. The proximity-to-target measure is this number, which ranges from 0-100, subtracted from 100. For example, a country with a child mortality of 10 would have a proximity-to-target score of 75.2 (10/40.25=.248; .248x100=24.8; 100-24.8=75.2). For eco-region protection the proximity-to-target score is 10 times the weighted average of the biome protection scores, which are capped at 10% to correspond to the target. For example, a country with 7% of its ecoregion's protected areas would have a proximity-to-target score of 70. The 10% target was established by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in decision VII/30 as target 1.1 of the 2010 Targets, "At least 10% of each of the world's ecological regions effectively conserved". The NRMI is the simple average of these four proximity-to-target scores. If a country is missing any of the data points an NRMI is not calculated for it.
Process Contact:
Contact Information:
Contact Organization Primary:
Contact Organization: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) User Services
Contact Address:
Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address: CIESIN, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
City: Palisades
State or Province: NY
Postal Code: 10964
Country: USA
Contact Voice Telephone: +1 845-365-8920
Contact Facsimile Telephone: +1 845-365-8922
Contact Electronic Mail Address: ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu
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Distributor:
Contact Information:
Contact Organization Primary:
Contact Organization: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) User Services
Contact Address:
Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address: CIESIN, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
City: Palisades
State or Province: NY
Postal Code: 10964
Country: USA
Contact Voice Telephone: +1 845-365-8920
Contact Facsimile Telephone: +1 845-365-8922
Contact Electronic Mail Address: ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu
Resource Description: CIESIN_SEDAC_NRMI_2007
Distribution Liability:
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.
Standard Order Process:
Ordering Instructions: The data are available from the from the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) in Microsoft Excel (XLS) formats via direct download at http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/es/mcc.html.
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Access Instructions: Data accessible via direct download.
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Metadata Reference Information
Section Index
Metadata Date: 2007/06/07
Metadata Review Date: 2008/02/18
Metadata Future Review Date: 2009/02/18
Metadata Contact:
Contact Information:
Contact Organization Primary:
Contact Organization: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) User Services
Contact Address:
Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address: CIESIN, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
City: Palisades
State or Province: NY
Postal Code: 10964
Country: USA
Contact Voice Telephone: +1 845-365-8920
Contact Facsimile Telephone: +1 845-365-8922
Contact Electronic Mail Address: ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu
Metadata Standard Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
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