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DPSIR
About: DPSIR is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 759 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15124 citations.
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TL;DR: Taking a systems approach incorporating an understanding of The Ecosystem Approach, the DPSIR framework is integrated with ecosystem services and societal benefits, and the focus this gives allows to create a specific framework for supporting decision making in the marine environment.
399 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the DPSIR (Driver, Pressure, State, Impact, Response) approach to assess the risks of failing the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Basque estuarine and coastal waters.
Abstract: The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) establishes a framework for the protection of groundwater, inland surface waters, estuarine waters, and coastal waters. The WFD constitutes a new view of water resources management in Europe, based mainly upon ecological elements; its final objective is achieving at least ‘good ecological quality status’ for all water bodies by 2015. The approach to identify these water bodies includes, amongst others, the sub-division of a water body into smaller water bodies, according to pressures and resulting impacts. The analyses of pressures and impacts must consider how pressures would be likely to develop, prior to 2015, in ways that would place water bodies at risk of failing to achieve ecological good status, if appropriate programmes of measures were not designed and implemented. This contribution focuses on the use of the DPSIR (Driver, Pressure, State, Impact, Response) approach, in assessing the pressures and risk of failing the abovementioned objective, using the Basque (northern Spain) estuarine and coastal waters as a case study, using the following steps: (i) determination of the water bodies to be analysed; (ii) identification and description of the driving forces producing pressures over the region; (iii) identification of all existing pressures within the water bodies; (iv) identification, from them, of the most relevant pressures; (v) determination, from the relevant pressures, of those which are significant; (vi) assessing the impacts on water bodies (in terms of ecological and chemical impacts); and (vii) assessing the risk of failing the WFD objectives.
378 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical examination of the theoretical foundations of the DPSIR approach is provided, based on a social constructivist and discourse analytic perspective, and it is shown that when applied in its traditional form to studies in the field of biodiversity, the framework is most compatible with the Preservationist discourse type and tends to favour conservationist and to neglect other positions.
338 citations
TL;DR: The need to better understand the linkages and interdependencies of socio-economic and coastal environmental dynamics has taken on a more deliberate role in the development and assessment of Integrated Coastal Management world-wide as discussed by the authors.
298 citations
TL;DR: It is concluded that an updated DPSIR framework is a useful adaptive management tool for analyzing and identifying solutions to environmental problems.
278 citations