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Table 6a: Illustrate examples of the linked impacts of environmental changes on human
well-being Ecosystem Assessment) 5

State Changes Environmental/ Human well-being impacts
ecosystem impacts
Human health Food Physical Socio-economic
security security and
safety
LAND: Urban ? Habitats and ? Respiratory ? Access ? Exposure ? Freedom of Abu Dhabi, UAE
expansion biodiversity and digestive to food, to crime Choice
? Concentration of tract diseases water ? Traffic and ? Opportunity
pollutants, solid and due to air transport for social and
organic wastes, urban pollution, poor hazards economic
heat Islands water supply and interaction
sanitation ? Hazard and access to
? Disruption of ? Stress-and of flooding services
hydrological and industry-related caused
biological cycles by soil ? Competition
diseases
sealing and for financial
? Incidences of occupation resources
heat stroke of hazardous ? Sense of
sites
community
? Sense of
isolation
Satisfaction
of material
needs highly
dependent on
income

WATER: ? Drying of shallow ? Available ? Available ? ? Access costs
Lowering of wells surface water irrigation Competition ? Premature
groundwater ? Salinity and ? Available water for well
levels groundwater
pollution drinking water ? Water abandonment
quality
? Discharge to ? Pollution from ? Buildings and
surface water land surface and ? Fresh infrastructure

? Land subsidence canals water for damage
irrigation
? Saline water ? ? Water
treatment costs
intrusion Salinization
? Reverse ? Water ? Treatment
costs for public
groundwater flow; quality supply
leads to the lowering
of the water level ? Inequity

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