UNEDP's Environmental Data Explorer
is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its
partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated
environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 500
different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global
statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater,
Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display
them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables
or download the data in different formats.
The navigation within the
Environmental Data Explorer is fairly easy and straightforward. In most cases
you will have to select something (eg. a dataset, years, a module etc.),
before being able to continue in the process. After having done your selection,
you just have to click on the button to proceed in the process. If you like to
return to revisit or change the options you use the button.
If
your selected values are what you need, but you want to treat the data further
on your computer, then download the data in different version, ranging from
simple text to Excel and GIS formats.
Also, by clicking on the map
image, you will enter onto an Internet Map Server (IMS), which produces
on-the-fly a map covering your selected attributes (variable, region, time).
You can zoom into the map to get more details, identify a countries name and
value, produce a graph etc.
Sample Map
