GEO-2000 reader survey

Global Environment Outlook 2000 Reader Survey

We need your help to improve the GEO-Report Series, make it more useful and user-friendly. If you complete and return this User/Reader Survey by 30 June 2000, we will send you a FREE COPY of the GEO-3 Overview Booklet which will be published in 2002.

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About GEO-2000

1. For what purpose do you use the GEO-2000?

If more than one, please rank them in order of importance (1, 2, 3...)

Purpose	Rank
Research and analysis
Background information for my work
Policy formulation
Reference source
Teaching or training tool
Keep up-to-date on environmental issues
Other (please specify)

2. How do you use GEO-2000?

If more than one, please rank them in order of importance (1, 2, 3...)

Use	Rank
Read all sections thoroughly
Read certain sections thoroughly
Skim through or glance at it
Use as a personal reference
Place in a Library
Share with colleagues
Keep on a shelf unused
Other

3. How did you obtain GEO-2000?

4. How do you rate the overall usefulness of GEO-2000?

5. How do you rate GEO-2000 for the following attributes:

	Excellent	Good	Adequate	Poor
Technical information
Accuracy
Coverage
Being up-to-date
Rigor of analysis
Objectivity
Innovation
Organization
Presentation and readability

6. The overall objective of GEO-2000 is to present a comprehensive, integrated, forward looking, policy relevant assessment of the environment. How effective has it been in achieving this objective?

Effective
Moderately effective
Not effective because...

7. What does GEO-2000 offer that is not provided by other sources?

An integrated overview of environmental issues and trends
Background on environmental issues and trends
Analysis and insights into environmental issues
New perspectives on environmental issues
Data, information and statistics
Other (please specify)

8. What sections do you refer to the most?

Synthesis
Global perspectives
State of the environment
Policy responses
Future perspectives
Outlook and recommendations
Other (please specify)

9. What do you like most about GEO-2000?

Integrated approach
New insights
Forward looking
Format and structure
Layout and design
References on data and information sources
Other (please specify)

10. What do you like least about GEO-2000?

Approach
Content
Structure
Layout and design
Other (please specify)

11. How will GEO-2000 contribute to your work? Please give examples.

12. What would you like to see in future issues of GEO?

13. When looking for information on environmental issues, how useful do you find the following sources:

	Very	Moderately	Slightly
Books
Internet or on-line services
CD-ROM or diskette products
Journals
Newspapers
Courses and seminars
Colleagues
Others (please specify)

14. Please name the one key source of information on environmental issues that you use regularly.

15. Have you used the first Global Environment Outlook report (GEO-1)?

About You

It would help us greatly if you could provide the following information, which will only be used for the purposes of this survey.

Name:
Title/Position:
Organization:
Street/Postal address:
City:
State/province:
Postal code
Country:
Tel:
Fax:
Email:

How would you classify the organization in which you work?

What type of position do you hold?

What are your areas of specialization?

Environmental management
Finance, banking, economics
Law
Natural sciences
Social sciences
Information management
Lecturing or teaching
Other (please specify)

What is your level of education?

How old are you?

And finally, please let us have any comments that may not have been covered by the questions above.

Thank you for taking the time to complete and return this important questionnaire.