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Map 8 (A) Institutional Capacity and Proposed Infrastructure.<br />
particularly important <strong>in</strong> bas<strong>in</strong>s with tenders for large projects, which can alter river functions and displace local <strong>in</strong>habitants. (B) Environmental Susta<strong>in</strong>ability Index.<br />
roposed Infrastructure. Treaties and River Bas<strong>in</strong> Organizations and Commissions may serve to <strong>in</strong>crease the hydropolitical resilience of a bas<strong>in</strong>. This may be<br />
(B) Environmental Susta<strong>in</strong>ability Index. The 2005 Environmental<br />
Susta<strong>in</strong>ability Index (ESI) measures the ability of a country to protect the environment over the next several decades. The ESI is an equally weighted average of 21 <strong>in</strong>dicators, grouped <strong>in</strong>to categories<br />
such as environmental systems, reducers of environmental stresses, reducers of human vulnerability, societal and <strong>in</strong>stitutional capacity and global stewardship. These data are comb<strong>in</strong>ed from 76<br />
separate data sets of natural resource endowments, pollution levels, environmental management efforts, etc. The ESI is useful for comparative analysis <strong>in</strong> identify<strong>in</strong>g lead<strong>in</strong>g countries <strong>in</strong> environmental<br />
susta<strong>in</strong>ability. The full ESI report is available at http://www.yale.edu/esi.<br />
Atlas of Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Resilience — 87
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