Assessing the environmental impacts of high-altitude agriculture in Taiwan: A Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework and spatial emergy synthesis

The issue of marine plastic litter pollution is multifaceted, cross-sectoral, and ongoing in the absence of appropriate management measures. This study analysed the issue of marine plastic litter pollution in the context of the Descriptor 10 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and Good Environmental Status of the oceans and seas. The Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework was used to assess the causes, effects, and management measures to changes in the marine environment resulting from marine plastics pollution. We noted that less than 10 peer-reviewed publications have applied the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) model to the issue of marine plastics pollution. Some basic needs such as food security, movement of goods and services, and shelter are also some of the major drivers of marine plastic pollution. The use of plastics is linked to multiple economic sectors (fisheries, agriculture, transport, packaging, construction) and other human activities. A significant amount of the resulting pressures came from the economic sectors for packaging and construction. State changes occurred at the environmental (contamination and bioaccumulation), ecosystem (ingestion of plastics, ghost fishing) and ecosystem service levels (supply of sea food, salt and cultural benefits), with possible loss of jobs and income being some of the observed impacts on human welfare. Responses as management measures, which are tailored to meet each component of the DPSIR framework, were identified. These included policies, regulations, technological advancement and behavioural change. The research acknowledges the issue of marine plastics pollution as a global environmental problem and recommends a trans-disciplinary approach, involving all types of stakeholders. Future research and analysis applying the DPSIR framework will be useful to provide the information necessary for the effective, adaptive management of litter pollution by marine plastics.

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DPSIR Framework – A Decision – Making Tool for Municipalities

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering ◽

10.1515/sjce-2016-0021 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 45-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

M. Majorošová

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Invasive Species ◽

Native Species ◽

Impact Response ◽

Natural Ecosystems ◽

Fallopia Japonica ◽

Dpsir Framework ◽

Pressure State ◽

Decision Making Tool ◽

Riverbank Vegetation

AbstractMany municipalities in Central Europe deal with the problem of invasive species in their natural ecosystems. Invasive vegetation eradicates native species and causes dense stands that damage the natural environment. This work shows how important it is to have an informative tool for municipalities to be successful in their struggles with invasive species. A Driver – Pressure – State – Impact - Response (DPSIR) framework is a decision - making tool, and this one is particularly applied to the species Fallopia japonica. Fallopia japonica is an extremely invasive and aggressive weed, and it is very often found in riverbank vegetation. This specific framework can be used as a tool for municipal managers to highlight all the problems with Fallopia japonica and define all the responses that should be provided by the municipalities. The work points out the steps that show how important it is to have a strategy or a clear concept of how to begin with such a serious issue as the presence of Fallopia japonica in riverbank vegetation and its eradication. This framework provides simple steps that cannot be excluded when a municipality start actions against Fallopia japonica. All the indicators used in the model are based on the information known about Fallopia japonica that are presented in the literature.

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Enhancing Resilience of Urban Systems Against Climate-Induced Floods Using Advanced Data-Driven and Computing Techniques: A Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) Framework

10.2172/1769705 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Gyan Chhipi-Shrestha

Keyword(s):

Impact Response ◽

Data Driven ◽

Urban Systems ◽

Dpsir Framework ◽

Pressure State

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Development Indicators and Soybean Production in Brazil

Agriculture ◽

10.3390/agriculture11111164 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. 1164

Author(s):

Marley Nunes Vituri Toloi ◽

Silvia Helena Bonilla ◽

Rodrigo Carlo Toloi ◽

Helton Raimundo Oliveira Silva ◽

Irenilza de Alencar Nääs

Keyword(s):

Significant Influence ◽

Impact Response ◽

Agricultural Activities ◽

Economic Potential ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Mato Grosso ◽

Dpsir Framework ◽

Soybean Production ◽

Environmental Development ◽

Pressure State

Due to its agricultural potential, land extensions, and favorable climate, Brazil is one of the largest producers and exporters of various agricultural products. A significant part of this production is placed in Mato Grosso, the primary national producer of several agricultural commodities. The soybean complex alone produced more than 33 million tons of soybean for the 2019/2020 harvest, representing 27% of national production. The economic potential that the soybean commodity represents is linked to the increase in demand for inputs, planted area, production, and productivity. Given these factors, the present study aims to analyze how the largest municipalities of soybean production behave, and the degree of interaction and positive associations between the economic potential promoted by soybean production and the economic/social development and environmental impacts in the Mato Grosso State, Brazil. The methodology was to categorize the thirty largest soybean producing municipalities, using the factor analysis method for selected indicators. The interpretation is made through the adoption of the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework. The results indicated that the groups formed are not homogeneous in terms of socio-economic and environmental development. The three factors that formed, were interpreted using the DPSIR are characterized by the significant influence of the population, reflect on its development, how economic activities are other and not just agriculture. The second also belongs to the driver in the DPSRI framework group. It is associated with the soybean production indicator, implying larger planting areas, generating jobs focused on agricultural activities. The interpretation is made through the adoption of the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework. The results indicated that the groups formed are not homogeneous in terms of socio-economic and environmental development. The significant influence of the population characterizes the three found factors. The first reflects on the region’s development and how other economic activities (not just agriculture) are carried on. The second also belongs to the driver in the DPSRI framework group, and it is associated with the soybean production indicator, generating jobs focused on agricultural activities. The third group, formed by municipalities in the Amazon region, with environmental factors associated with large geographical areas, extensive native forests, and more significant carbon sequestration, considers the DPSRI framework’s impacts. Showing that there are behavior patterns and taking this into account is the optimal way to use the predictors appropriately. Municipalities are expected to be more reactive to some changes than to others to achieve a good level of development.

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An Integrated Analysis of the Eutrophication Process in the Enxoé Reservoir within the DPSIR Framework

Water ◽

10.3390/w10111576 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 1576 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tiago Ramos ◽

Hanaa Darouich ◽

Maria Gonçalves ◽

David Brito ◽

Maria Castelo Branco ◽

...

Keyword(s):

State Level ◽

Early Years ◽

Impact Response ◽

Integrated Analysis ◽

Nutrient Loads ◽

Internal Load ◽

Dpsir Framework ◽

P Release ◽

Southern Portugal ◽

Pressure State

The Enxoé reservoir in southern Portugal has been exhibiting the highest trophic state in the country since its early years of operation. The problem has attracted water managers’ and researchers’ attention as the reservoir is the water supply for two municipalities. Extensive research was thus conducted over the last few years, including field monitoring and modelling at the plot, catchment, and reservoir scales. This study now frames all partial findings within the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework to better understand the eutrophication process in the Enxoé reservoir. Agriculture and grazing were found to have a reduced role in the eutrophication of the reservoir, with annual sediment and nutrient loads being comparably smaller or similar to those reported for other Mediterranean catchments. Flash floods were the main mechanism for transporting particle elements to the reservoir, being in some cases able to carry up three times the average annual load. However, the main eutrophication mechanisms in the reservoir were P release from deposited sediment under anoxic conditions and the process of internal recycling of organic matter and nutrients. Reducing the P load from the catchment and deposited sediment could lead to a mesotrophic state level in the reservoir. However, this level would only be sustainable by limiting the P internal load ability to reach the photic zone.

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A Study on the Decoupling between Economic Growth and Carbon Dioxide: A Case on the Shanxi Province

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.291-294.1425 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 291-294 ◽

pp. 1425-1428

Author(s):

Dong Rui Qing ◽

Yao Hua Sun

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Energy Consumption ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Driving Force ◽

Impact Response ◽

Shanxi Province ◽

Dpsir Framework ◽

Pressure State ◽

Force Pressure

The paper introduce and handle OECD decoupling model based on DPSIR framework(the driving force-pressure-state-impact-response).Through the model recommended by IPCC, calculate the emissions of carbon dioxide of industrial department in Shanxi province during the period of 2000-2007.Analysing the situation of decoupling among GDP of Shanxi, the energy consumption of Shanxi industrial and carbon dioxide emissions with OECD decoupling model.The conclusion shows that the industry in Shanxi has exhibited outspread link among GDP,energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, and also this paper analyse the reasons of this situation.

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Bio-geoindicadores aplicados ao ecoturismo em Unidades de Conservação localizadas em espaços urbanos

Revista Brasileira de Ecoturismo (RBEcotur) ◽

10.34024/rbecotur.2015.v8.6417 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Joyce Ferreira Macedo de Andrade Fidélis ◽

Sérgio Queirós Lima ◽

Aline Maria Meiguins de Lima ◽

Márcia Nágem Krag ◽

Quêzia Leandro de Moura Guerreiro

Keyword(s):

Secondary Data ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Impact Response ◽

Metropolitan Region ◽

Direct Influence ◽

Conservation Units ◽

Analysis Process ◽

Environmental Protection Area ◽

Protection Area ◽

Pressure State

As Unidades de Conservação são áreas que visam à proteção da biodiversidade e dos recursos naturais, sua ligação com as práticas de ecoturismo dão suporte ao manejo dessas áreas, uma vez que esta é uma atividade que visa à aproximação dos visitantes e da população do entorno. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo identificar os bio-geoindicadores aplicados ao planejamento de ecoturismo em unidades de conservação localizadas na Região Metropolitana de Belém – Pará (RMB). O método adotado foi de levantamento das práticas do ecoturismo in loco, pesquisa de dados secundários e emprego do modelo “Vulnerabilidade-Pressão-Estado-Impacto-Risco-Resposta”, que possibilita identificar os principais elementos de atuação no processo. Os resultados indicaram que as unidades de conservação do Parque Ambiental do Utinga (localizado na Área de Proteção Ambiental de Belém) e do Parque Antônio Danúbio (no município de Ananindeua) são favoráveis ao ecoturismo e a execução continuada de ações de educação ambiental envolvendo as pessoas residentes nas áreas de influência direta destas unidades. Com relação a unidade de conservação do Combu, os bares e restaurantes existentes atuam como atrativos, sendo estratégicos para o turismo local. A análise de “Vulnerabilidade-Pressão-Estado-Impacto-Risco-Resposta” demonstrou que as pressões mais intensas são associadas ao crescimento desordenado da RMB, que traz consigo a produção de resíduos, a falta de saneamento, a poluição hídrica e a construção irregular de unidades prediais. As respostas admitidas para a situação de risco instalada indicam que que deve haver uma maior fiscalização dentro dos Parques; e que os projetos que envolvam o turismo sejam mais explorados, com uma maior regularidade e duração. Bio-geoindicators applied to the ecotourism in conservation units located in urban spaces ABSTRACT The Conservation Units are areas that aimed the protection of biodiversity and the natural resources. Their link with the practices of ecotourism support the management of these areas once this activity aimed the visitor and community approximation. The present project aims to identify the bio-geoindicators applied to the planning of ecotourism located in the Metropolitan Region of Belém - Pará (RMB). The survey was conducted based on ecotourism practices on the unit conservations of this study and research of secondary data and documentary. The analysis process employs the model of “Vulnerability-Pressure-State-Impact-Response-Risk”, which allows identifying the variables of intervention in each unit. The results specify the practices of ecotourism in the Conservation Units of Utinga Environmental Park (located in Environmental Protection Area of Belém) and Antônio Danúbio Park (in Ananindeua city), proved favorable to ecotourism, through activities on ecological trails and environmental education involving people who live in the areas of direct influence of these units. In the Conservation Units of Combu, bars and restaurants has become only attractive strategy for local tourism. The “Vulnerability-Pressure-State-Impact-Response-Risk” showed that the most intense pressures are associated with disordered growth of the Metropolitan Region of Belém, which brings with it the production of waste, lack of sanitation, water pollution and the construction of irregular unit buildings. The answers admitted to the risk identified indicate that there should be greater oversight inside the Parks; and the tourism projects must be more explored, with regularity and duration. KEYWORDS: Metropolitan Region of Belém; Ecotourism; Protection Areas.

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