Environmental Change Part 4 Flashcards
What does the DPSIR acronym stand for?
Drivers, responses, state, impact, response
What is the DPSIR framework used for?
To assess and manage environmental problems
What are some examples of drivers?
Food, water, culture, shelter, health, security
What are some examples of pressures?
Land use changes, resource consumption, release of substances and physical damage
What are some examples of states?
Chemical, biological and physical variables
What are some examples of impacts?
Provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural services
What are drivers?
The socio-economic and socio-cultural forces driving human actives, which increase or mitigate pressures on the environment
What are pressures?
The stresses that human activities place on the environment
What are states?
The condition of the abiotic and biotic components of the ecosystem, in terms of physical, chemical or biological variables
What are impacts?
The effects of environmental degradation which change the quality and functioning of the ecosystem
What are responses?
The actions and management strategies employed for the environmental issue,
What do responses aim to do to drivers?
Modify, alternate, substitute or remove drivers
What do responses aim to do to pressures?
Eliminate, reduce or prevent pressures
What do responses aim to do to state?
Restore or influence state
What do responses aim to do to impacts?
Compensate or mitigate the impact
