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Module
5 EXERCISE

Identifying interlinkages among environmental issues In your group of four or five (from
the Integrated Story Sheet Exercise):
9-12 December, 2013 ? state to the interlinkages table below.
From your DPSI Story Sheet, transfer the drivers, associated pressures and environmental
?

Starting from the driver, identify two other pressures and then other environmental
states that could change as a result of each pressure. Note the multiple linkages among
pressures and environmental states

What impacts on the environment and human health are associated with changes in the
?
various environmental states?
? Complete the diagram and discuss in plenary

Time: 20 minutes for group work, 15 minutes in plenary (assuming two groups volunteering to
present).

Figure 10 Analysing drivers, pressures and states and trends

Drivers Pressures Environmental state and trends

Rapid population expansion Sewage discharge Water quality
Community air quality
Coastal land reclamation Draining of tidal flats

Destraction of mangroves
habitate

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