Mapping flood exposure in Haiti is part of ongoing research at CIESIN on environmental risks and integrated development there.
Tag: Map of the Month
Roads: An Essential Element of Development
Roads data are critical to planning and development of rural transportation in developing countries, where better transportation systems can help improve livelihoods.
Bright Lights, Big City?
Researchers using nighttime lights data to ask questions about economic development in sub-Saharan Africa have findings counter to expectation.
A Road Map Toward Better Understanding of Global Environmental Change
The Social Process Diagram published in 1992 was an attempt to map out the key systems and interactions among systems that were seen as underpinning the human drivers of global environmental change.
New Understanding of Soil Quality throughout Africa
A new interactive mapping tool lets users visualize a broad range of soil data for the continent of Africa.
Sandy’s Surge Affected More Than 1.4 Million in 11 States
Based on a model used by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the map shows coastal areas likely to have been inundated by the storm surge resulting from Hurricane Sandy, in relationship to residential population.
The Intersection of Population and Elevation Examined
This map shows the estimated number of people in 2010 living at different elevation levels across several Southern Asian countries. The database it’s taken from lets users without specialized geospatial training or software compare populations in various environmental contexts in different countries.
In Your Own Backyard: Mapping Communities Near Superfund Sites
The NPL Superfund Footprint Mapper is an interactive, online mapping application—a clickable map—that lets users visualize a rich variety of population and environment characteristics of areas in the vicinity of Superfund sites.
For Better or for Worse: A Decade of Global Environmental Performance Trends Examined
The Pilot Trend Environmental Performance Index (Trend EPI) ranks countries on improvement or decline in their environmental performance, over the past decade.
