Ecosystem Services Analysis and Resilience Improvement Planning in Nakdong River Area using Systems Thinking

Kihwan Song; Jinhyung Choi; NamHee Choi

doi:10.32588/ksds.22.2.2

Ecosystem Services Analysis and Resilience Improvement Planning in Nakdong River Area using Systems Thinking

Korean System Dynamics Review ◽

10.32588/ksds.22.2.2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 33-54

Author(s):

Kihwan Song ◽

Jinhyung Choi ◽

NamHee Choi

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Systems Thinking ◽

Nakdong River ◽

Improvement Planning

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Ecologies by Humans for Humans

The New Ecology ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691160566.003.0007 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Oswald J. Schmitz

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Urban Ecology ◽

Systems Thinking ◽

Evolutionary Biology ◽

Industrial Ecology ◽

Environmental Stewardship ◽

Resource Extraction ◽

Ethical Position ◽

The World ◽

Virtual Resources

This chapter discusses the potential of industrial and urban ecology to entwine humans and nature to achieve sustainability in ways that are respectful and ethical to both. Thinking about humans and nature linked as socio-ecological systems means appreciating the growing, inextricable connectedness between global locations where technology is manufactured and used, and locations that physically provide the key elements. An ethical position of environmental stewardship would obligate one to first question whether it is right to protect nature in one location and force resource extraction to be done in other parts of the world. Industrial ecology is an emerging field that enhances society's ability to maintain the functionality of related ecosystems, and is also now toying with using principles of evolutionary biology and resilience. Like industrial ecology, urban ecology is based on systems thinking and include the valuation of ecosystem services, telecoupling of real and virtual resources, and environmental stewardship.

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A DPSIR Assessment on Ecosystem Services Challenges in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: Coping with the Impacts of Sand Mining

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12229323 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (22) ◽

pp. 9323

Author(s):

S. Naveedh Ahmed ◽

Le Hung Anh ◽

Petra Schneider

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Systems Thinking ◽

Mekong Delta ◽

Well Being ◽

Mekong River ◽

Sand Mining ◽

Delta Region ◽

River Sand ◽

Holistic View ◽

Dpsir Framework

River sand mining has been a concerning problem for the southern Asian developing nations. The rampant growth of urbanisation in developing countries has led to an extensive need for and consumption of sand. The Mekong River and its delta are an essential part of southern Vietnam, and also a global biodiversity hub that is currently being exhausted by intensive sand mining. The understanding of the cause–effect of the sand mining over the Mekong delta region and river, from a systems-thinking perspective, is lacking, not only with Vietnam but also with other countries along the Mekong River. The DPSIR framework (Driver–Pressure–State–Impact–Response) is a useful tool to assess and describe the cause–effect within an ecosystem to aid in a better systems-thinking approach for stakeholders, policy makers, and governance managers to draft response measures. This study used the DPSIR framework to assess the different effects of sand mining on the ecosystem services and human well-being in the Mekong River and delta region of Vietnam. Rapid population growth, urbanisation, and infrastructure development needs remain as primary drivers for the sand consumption. The DPSIR study showed a holistic view of several interlinked pressures and state changes in Vietnam’s Mekong, along with some potential responses, to form systematic, sustainable approaches for mitigating and adapting the impacts caused by extensive river sand mining.

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