International Environmental Data

Paul R. Hensel
Florida State University

Page Index

• Agriculture and Food Supply Data
• Energy Data
• Forestry Data
• Fresh Water Data
• Oceans and Fisheries Data
• Resource Scarcity Data
• Species Diversity Data
• General Climate and Environmental Data

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• International Conflict and Cooperation Data
• International Economic Data
• International Political Data
• International Social Data
• U.S. Data
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Agriculture and Food Supply Data

My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data. See also the section on resource scarcity, below.

Agriculture Data: From the UN FAO.

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: varies
• Variables Included: agricultural production (crops / livestock) and trade, commodity balance, food supply and balance, producer prices, land, population, means of production, cereals export

Agricultural data (from Harvard's Center for International Development geography data web page; documentation is available in Microsoft Word format, and the data is available in comma-delimited and Stata formats)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
• Variables Included: FAO soil suitability (two types), percent of Matthews' cultivated land in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone, percent of Matthews' cultivated land -- using a revised classification scheme -- in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone, percent land area in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone weighted by Matthews' cultivated land, percent land area in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone weighted by a revised Matthews' cultivated land classification

Energy Data

My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data. See also the section on resource scarcity, below.

BP-Amoco's Statistical Review of World Energy (includes reports on oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear energy, hydroelectricity, and primary energy; you may also download any or all of the Review's data tables with data on each type of energy in proven reserves, production, consumption, and trade in Excel format)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
• Variables Included:

Petroleum Data (from the U.S. Energy Information Administration; includes annual, quarterly, and monthly data; additional world data available for natural gas, coal, electricity, energy production and consumption, carbon emissions, prices, and GDP / population)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: Most countries, varying temporal coverage (some indicators reported for one recent year, e.g., 1996; others for series dating as far back as 1970)
• Variables Included: Petroleum consumption (demand), supply, reserves, trade, refinery capacity, rigs in operation

International Energy Annual (from the U.S. Energy Information Administration; includes data on petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, energy prices, coal, carbon emissions, and GDP / population)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: Most countries; most tables cover a recent year (e.g., 1996), although some extend back to 1988
• Variables Included:

International Petroleum Monthly (from the U.S. Energy Information Administration)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: Monthly, quarterly, and annual data; mostly aggregated for entire world or all OECD countries
• Variables Included: Oil production, imports, balance, demand

USGS Minerals Yearbook (includes web pages devoted to individual countries and minerals, as well as a statistical compendium of major minerals)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: entire world, mid-to-late 1990s (multiple annual reports for each country); statistical compendium: adds mid-to-late 1980s
• Variables Included: Country pages: production of minerals over previous five years, location and capacity of major mines

Offshore Technology ("The website for the offshore oil and gas industry"; mostly technical information of little interest to social scientists, but they include a list of current projects where offshore drilling is occurring, some of which involve oil wells in disputed waters)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: current
• Variables Included: (no data -- just information about current drilling)

Forestry Data

My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data. See also the section on resource scarcity, below.

Forestry Data (from the UN FAO)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
• Variables Included:

State of the World's Forests 1999 (from the UN FAO)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
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Fresh Water Data

My Fresh Water, Environmental Topics, and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.

AquaStat (from the UN FAO; a series of regional and country reports, usually full of data, on the scarcity and usage of water resources)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: limited primarily to Africa, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union; focuses on the late 1990s
• Variables Included:

Peter Gleick, The World's Water data

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
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UNESCO/WMO River Flow Data

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1800-1972 (mosts rivers cover more limited time frames)
• Variables Included:

Global River Discharge Database (RivDis) (a research project compiling river flow data for major world rivers; their data may be accessed by country, or downloaded completely)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
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Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (from Aaron Wolf at Oregon State University; this project offers searchable data on International Water Treaties)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
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International Commission on Large Dams (offering a searchable database of large dams)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
• Variables Included:

R-HydroNET V1.0 (Web-accessible hydrological and other data on South and Central America and the Caribbean)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
• Variables Included:

Oceans and Fisheries Data

My Maritime, Environmental Topics, and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data. See also the section on resource scarcity, below.

Fisheries Data and Fishery Summary Tables (from the FAO Fisheries Department)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
• Variables Included:

State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA; from the UN FAO)

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Resource Scarcity Data

My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.

World Resources 1996-97 data (a searchable interface offering access to the data from the publication World Resources 1996-97, which was put together by the World Resources Institute, UN Environment Program, UN Development Program, and World Bank)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: entire world, around 1996 (varies for different indicators)
• Variables Included: Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, Agricultural Inputs, Atmospheric Concentrations of Greenhouse and Ozone-Depleting Gases, CO2 Emissions from Industrial Processes, Commercial Energy Production, Education and Child Health, Energy Consumption, Food Trade and Aid, Food and Agriculture Production, Forest Resources, Freshwater Resources and Withdrawals, Globally Threatened Species, Gross National and Domestic Product Estimates, Industrial Waste, Land Area and Use, Livestock Populations and Grain Consumed as Feed, Marine Biodiversity, Marine and Freshwater Catches, Aquaculture and Fish Consumption, Mortality and Nutrition, National and International Protection of Natural Areas, Official Development Assistance and External Debt Indicators, Other Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Reserves and Resources of Commercial Energy, Size and Growth of Population and Labor Force, Trends in Births / Life Expectancy / Fertility / Age Structure, Urban Indicators, Wastewater Treatment, Wood Production and Trade, World CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuel Consumption and Cement Manufacture (each of these general topics features data on multiple specific indicators)

World Resources data tables (access to PDF files listing the data from the publication World Resources 1998-99)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: entire world, around 1998 (varies for different indicators)
• Variables Included: Atmosphere and climate, Biodiversity, Economic indicators, Energy and materials, Food and agriculture, Forests and land cover, Fresh water, Health, Oceans and fisheries, Population and human development, Urban data (each of these general topics features data on multiple specific indicators)

Species Diversity Data

My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.

Megadiversity Countries (from Conservation International; a variety of tables listing and ranking countries with the most endemic species of various types)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: seventeen "megadiversity countries" (Brazil. Colombia, Indonesia, China, Mexico, South Africa, Venezuela. Ecuador, Peru, United States, Papua New Guinea, India, Australia, Malaysia, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Philippines), present-day
• Variables Included: vertebrates: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians; threatened mammals; threatened birds; plant species

Threatened Plants of the World (from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
• Variables Included:

General Climate and Environmental Data

My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.

Monitoring Environmental Progress (from CIESIN)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
• Variables Included:

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service (from CIESIN; includes a searchable portal to environmental treaty texts)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain:
• Variables Included: treaty texts and signatories

Climate Time Bomb (a series of facts and figures from Greenpeace)

• Spatial-Temporal Domain: early 1990s
• Variables Included: (list forthcoming)

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