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Figure 5 DPSIR framework exercise Module
5

HUMAN SOCIETY
DRIVERS
Indirect influence
PRESSURES through human developmnet IMPACTS
Human well-being
Direct influence
through human Step 1 Abu Dhabi, UAE
interventions
Step 2
RESPONSES Step 3
Sectors Mitigation and Economic, Environmental
adaptation social services
Human influences goods
and
services

Natural processes STATE and TRENDS
Step 1 Water, land, atmosphere,
biodiversity Step 1
ENVIRONMENT

Step 1: What is happening to the environment and why?
Step 2: What are the consequences for the environment and humanity?
Step 3: What is being done and how effective is it?

4 Step 1: What is happening to the environment and why?

The first step in the GEO approach to an IEA is to address the question: What is happening to the
environment and why? This question can be answered by considering more detailed questions of the

DPSIR analytical framework. These questions include:
? What are the priority environmental issues (e.g., water quality/quantity, air pollution, land
degradation, biodiversity)?

? What are the specific concerns related to the STATE of the environment for each issue and what
are the key TRENDS?

? What DRIVERS and PRESSURES are causing environmental change?
? What INDICATORS are appropriate and necessary to characterize these drivers, pressures and
states?

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