DPSIR Framework – A Decision – Making Tool for Municipalities

Majorošová, Martina

doi:10.1515/sjce-2016-0021

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“…The DPSIR approach presents mechanisms for integrating the natural and social aspects of environmental problems with regards to sustainable development by incorporating cause-effect relationships. Due to its ability to integrate knowledge across different disciplines and help formalize different decision alternatives, the framework has been widely applied to analyze the interacting processes of human-environmental systems and help policy-makers identify viable options for managing, protecting, and assessing the progress toward sustainable development [23][24][25][26][27]. For instance, the potential for the DPSIR framework to be used as a tool to simultaneously organize sophisticated scientific research for building an understanding about coastal socioecological systems and to help stakeholders and policy-makers to articulate and manage coastal sustainability challenges was confirmed [28].…”

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Sustainability Assessment of Water Resources in Beijing

Yang

2020

Water

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A sustainability assessment of water resources is essential for maintaining regional sustainable development. In this study, a comprehensive assessment of changes in the sustainability of the water resource system in Beijing from 2008 to 2018 was conducted on the basis of the driver-pressure-state-impact-response (DPSIR) model. To reflect the impacts of humans on the water consumption and pollution of water resources, the water footprint was considered. In addition, key factors that affect the sustainability of water resources were filtered by the modified entropy method. The results indicated that all drivers, pressures, states, impacts, and responses demonstrated increasing tendencies. As a result, a remarkable improvement in the sustainability of the water system, which was mitigated from an alert state to a good state, was achieved due to the comprehensive effect of the indexes. From these results, we inferred that the sustainability of regional water resources could only be achieved through a comprehensive consideration of regional social, economic, and environmental water systems and climate change. Therefore, formulating medium- and long-term urban, economic, and water development plans and adjusting medium- and short-term water utilization programs could contribute to the sustainable utilization of regional water resources.

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Sustainability Assessment of Water Resources in Beijing

Yang

2020

Water

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“…One of the main GIS functions for landscape impact assessment is to gather data that will result in the creation of a database, where the data can be subsequently manipulated and analysed (Gontier et al, 2010;Majorošová, 2016). Such databases are useful for elaborating land cover maps, topographical maps (digital elevation model or digital model of relief), conservation or protected -areas maps, soil maps, geology maps, climate maps, erosion-accumulation models, models of various natural dynamic phenomena demonstrated in the form of continuous physical fields obtained by the interpolation of input points.…”

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3 Methods And Techniques In Landscape Impact Assessment

Belčáková¹,

Pauditšová²,

Gazzola³

2018

Landscape Impact Assessment in Planning Processes

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Many years of EIA and SEA practice have resulted in the development of a wide range of methods that can also be used in landscape impact assessment. These range from methods and techniques that are applied frequently (such as analogs, checklists, expert opinions, mass balances, matrices and interaction diagrams, overlay mapping, photographs/photomontages or qualitative models), to those that are used moderately (such as decision-focused checklists, indices or indicators, laboratory testing, literature reviews, networks, quantitative models) and to those that are used sometimes only (such as environmental cost-benefit analysis, expert systems, baseline monitoring and field studies monitoring, risk assessment, scenario building, trend extrapolation, etc.). Given the multidisciplinary nature and understanding of landscape, a lot of professionals including ecologists, geographers, environmental experts, planners and architects, artists, psychologists, economists and others are engaging in studies of landscape assessment and perception. As a result, they have introduced and explored the application of different sets of methods representing their own disciplinary perspectives, contributing to making the literature in this area, extensive and vast. This chapter introduces and briefly explains the most commonly used methods and techniques in landscape impact assessment. An overview of moderately used methods and techniques is also provided. The type method and technique to use is determined based on the stage of the assessment process, geographical scale, the hierarchical level or the specifics of the assessed development proposal. The most commonly used methods and techniques in landscape impact assessment include: • baseline description, surveys and analysis methods, which include baseline data and field surveys which allow for the subsequent landscape evaluation and generation of follow-up data for monitoring purposes, • impact identification and prediction methods, which include checklists, visual quality models, integrated landscape management models, landscape-ecology based models and scenarios, multi-criteria evaluation method and landscape ecological stability methodology. These methods also serve as a reference basis for assessing the significance of impacts, • impact assessment and monitoring methods which include matrices and interaction diagrams, criteria, thresholds and indicators,

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