Reports

National Human Development Report Catalog

Facilitates searches for disaggregated data relating to the Millennium Development Goals. A data dictionary is included.

Where the Poor Are: An Atlas of Poverty

An atlas (available in PDF) of 21 full-page poverty  maps of different continent and countries, depicting small area estimates of vital development indicators at high-resolution. Causal patterns are revealed and  practical examples provided of how the data and tools have been used, and may be used, in applied decisions and poverty interventions.

Proceedings

Global Spatial Data and Information User Workshop

Workshop Report, presentations, and information related to the Global Spatial Data and Information User Workshop held September  21-23, 2004 at  Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York.

Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community (2001)

Access to material presented at the 2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community.

Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Community (2003)

Access to material presented at the 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community.

Remote Sensing Applications at the State and Local Level

Workshop Report and information related to the Workshop on Remote Sensing Applications at the state and local level held February 23, 2001 at Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York.

Remote Sensing and Environmental Treaties

Providing information about applications of remote sensing to multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).

This website grew out of a December 2000 workshop at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington DC, organized by the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), and co-sponsored by the IUCN, MEDIAS FRance, and the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Project.