To provide an assessment of potential climate change impacts on world crop production.

To provide data that can assist in the extraction and analysis of chlorophyll-a concentration and trends from global grids.

To provide information on global land use for research on human-environment interactions.

To provide a database with observed responses to climate change for multidisciplinary studies.

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

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

To provide estimates of urban and rural populations and land areas in the low elevation coastal zone.

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of age, race, ethnicity, and housing, for the United States and Puerto Rico for data integration.

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of income, education, and housing, for metropolitan statistical areas at a finer resolution than is available in the 30 arc-second grids used for the United States as a whole.

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of income, education, and housing, for the United States and Puerto Rico for data integration.

To provide gridded demographic data, including characteristics of age, race, ethnicity, and housing, for metropolitan statistical areas at a finer resolution than is available in the 30 arc-second grids used for the United States as a whole.

To serve a wide user community by providing composite Landsat images and raw data for urban areas that can be used in interdisciplinary studies of remote sensing and the environment.

To provide geographical portraits of vulnerability designed to incorporate both exposure to climate change and national capacities to adapt.

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

To make the acquisition, comparison and analysis of sustainability indicators easier by compiling them in a single database, incorporating multiple country codes, and condensing the indicator descriptions into short methodological summaries in an accompanying data dictionary.

To help assess a country's demand on and supply of biological capital.

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 a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global flood hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global landslide mortality risks and distribution.

To identify areas of the world that are at greater risk of multihazard total economic loss.