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Figure 9 The DPSI Story Sheet Module
5

Abu Dhabi, UAE
Drivers Pressures State-and-Trends Impacts
(only one)

Environmental
state:

Draw arrows connecting specific driving
forces to specific pressures

An integrated story must not stop at understanding the causality chain for just one specific issue.
Integrated environmental assessment looks for linkages among environmental issues. A driver or pressure
identified for one issue could be having an effect on other environmental issues. This combination of
interlinkages was described in Figure 3.

For example, you might have a concern about the state of water quality in bay, and might identify
sewage discharge as a direct pressure on this state. In that example, are there other environmental
states for which this sewage discharge might be serving as a pressure? It is possible that the discharge
affects the state of air quality (e.g., odour) in communities around the sewage discharge. Additionally,
the driver of rapid population growth could cause increased urban development, which in turn could
cause an increase land reclamation around the bay.

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