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Module Figure 21 Analytical framework – societal responses and the third step in
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the GEO IEA approach

HUMAN SOCIETY
DRIVERS IMPACTS
9-12 December, 2013 Direct influence RESPONSES Step 3 Step 2
Indirect influence
through human developmnet
PRESSURES
Human well-being
through human
Step 1
interventions

Mitigation and
Sectors
Economic,
adaptation
services
social
Human influences
goods
and Environmental
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?

6.1 Policy analysis background
Environmental states can change over space and time for many reasons, driven by many processes,

and influenced in many ways by multiple actors. Traditional state of the environment (SoE) reports
document these trends, their interactions and their potential implications for human well-being. Although
traditional SoE information alone may help influence the way people view the environment and their
relationship with it, a SoE typically stops short of systematically pointing out causes or levers of change.

IEA goes beyond traditional SoE analysis, and can help answer what is being done and how effective is

it? In this policy background section we build an understanding of policies and the policy process (the
what), along with an understanding of policy actors (the who).

70 Integrated Analysis of Environmental Trends and Policies