A review of the application and evolution of the DPSIR framework with an emphasis on coastal social-ecological systems

By S. R. Gari, Alice Newton, John Icely. 2015

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The applications of the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework were reviewed for several Social-Ecological Systems (SES), with an emphasis on the coastal environment. The evolution of DPSIR was traced from the Stress-Response framework to its present form. Discrepancies in the definitions of the DPSIR's information categories are presented. The application of the framework was explored both as a discrete tool and combined with other methods for different coastal and estuarine systems and biodiversity. The overall merits and limitations of the DPSIR framework are discussed in a critique. Several recommendations are suggested for refining the framework to overcome its limitations. Finally it is concluded that an updated DPSIR framework is a useful adaptive management tool for analyzing and identifying solutions to environmental problems.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Citations in the corpus

• The Effect of Green Finance on Energy Sustainable Development: A Case Study in China (2019, methodology): “The PSR model has been widely used in the environmental studies (Atkins et al. 2011; Gari, Newton, and Icely 2015; Gregory et al. 2013).”
• Water-energy-food nexus: Concepts, questions and methodologies (2018, background): “Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework designed for adaptive 715 management of Social-Ecological Systems (Gari et al., 2015) into modelling might be 716”
• Structuring problems for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in practice: A literature review of method combinations (2017, methodology): “If the DPSIR factors are used as such in MCDA, which often seems to be the case, it can result in double counting because the DPSIR-clusters are interconnected (e.g. Gari et al., 2015).”