Hi folks: The suggestions I received (below) suggests that there's a need to be filled, especially because lots of other people are looking for the same thing. I still haven't found what I'm looking for -- the ESI is closest, but it's no longer being updated -- so if anyone else has suggestions, feel free to pass 'em along.
Beth ---- -WRI’s Environmental Democracy Index -For climate policy only, Climate Action Tracker -Perhaps the number of international environmental agreements a country has ratified could be a good measure; See https://iea.uoregon.edu/dataset-environmental-credibility -María Ivanova at u mass Boston has been developing an environmental conventions index based on countries commitments to the 9 environmental conventions. -The predecessor to the EPI, the Environmental Sustainability Index <http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/esi/>, had a few things along these lines. There was an index of global environmental treaty participation; environmental INGO participation; participation in global environmental finance mechanisms, gasoline price as fraction of world average, protected areas area, some survey results that I wouldn't use now, an index of how many important environmental variables are missing from global databases. -Martin Janicke's students have got some useful metrics - Klaus Jacob has work that tracks diffusion of environmental impact assessment, for example. -There are people that track environmental protection status in national constitutions. And there are efforts to track commitment to a right to environmental information. -The Environmental Policy Stringency Index is all we've found for the EU / OECD [but not for countries outside this region] http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jed/15/2 * http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1070496506287135 -Some commonly utilized indicators of government commitment: signatories & ratification of environmental treaties/ agreements; lands (and coastal areas) set aside as natural reserves; number and status of eNGOs... On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Beth DeSombre <edeso...@wellesley.edu> wrote: > Hi gep-ed-ers > > I'd love suggestions for an index that gets at country-level commitment > about the environment across a wide variety of countries (in my case, I'm > looking at countries with major seaports, across all continents). > > Everyone these days is using the EPI <https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/> > for lots of things, but in this instance I actually DON'T want > environmental conditions (e.g. how polluted your air is), but what level of > commitment your government makes to environmental protection generally. > > What options do you recommend? It needs to cover a pretty big geographic > range. > > I'll report back on what the major suggestions are, if you email me > privately. > > Thanks, > > Beth > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
