Sustainable Development Indicator Group

Working Draft Framework, Version 2, June 4, 1996

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3.2.3 Large Scale Phenomena

Definition: Changes to an endowment due to large-scale regional or global phenomena, including global climate change, el nino, drought

Definition Source: None

Large Scale Phenomena Categories:

3.2.3.1 Climate Change: Changes in endowments due to long-term changes in a region's rainfall, soil, and biota. (Definition Source: None)

3.2.3.2 El Nino: Changes in endowments due changes in the El Nino upwelling off the western coast of Central America. (Definition Source: None)