Using DPSIR and Balances to Support Water Governance

Vannevel, Rudy

doi:10.3390/w10020118

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“…These are related to terminological unclarity, lack of methodological description to analyze disturbances and oversimplification of problems when dealing with complex environmental issues [21,94,95]. These limitations can be overcome by integrating it with other conceptual frameworks [94,95] and more specific modelling tools [96]. Although the DPSIR framework has particular limitations, it has for many cases shown to be an effective tool to summarize and visualize the cause-effect relationships between environmental components and anthropogenic impacts, and is a first step to define and trade-off responses at different levels of the impact chain.…”

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A Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-Responses Framework to Support the Sustainability of Fish and Fisheries in Lake Tana, Ethiopia

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Lake Tana, Ethiopia's largest lake, has a remarkable and conservation-worthy assemblage of fish species, requiring fisheries management for sustainable exploitation. However, due to anthropogenic impacts, many of these fish species are threatened. Hence, an improved management of these resources is recommended. To allow a more sustainable exploitation of natural resources, a better understanding of the cause-effect relationships between anthropogenic impacts and environmental components is fundamental. The Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-Responses (DPSIR) framework is a useful tool to describe these links in a meaningful way to managers and policy makers. Despite its potential, application of DPSIR is virtually lacking in developing countries. This paper assessed the potential of the DPSIR framework and used it to comprehensively describe the available knowledge and management needs in the lake catchment. Rapid population growth and the economic transformation are the main driving forces leading to various pressures such as water quality and wetlands degradation as well as declining fish community, which is detrimental to the socio-economic state and health of the local inhabitants. As feedback to the driving forces, pressures, state changes and impacts, optimal multi-level responses are developed. This study aims at providing policy makers a better understanding of the lake catchment in order to bridge the gap between science and decision-making.

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A Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-Responses Framework to Support the Sustainability of Fish and Fisheries in Lake Tana, Ethiopia

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“…It is possible to explain the functioning of the society by means of a small number of interacting frameworks. In [27,28], the Pentatope Model (PTM) is proposed as a holistic framework for societal, and, in particular, environmental analyses. It includes five (sub)frameworks, with each framework composed of five factors ( Figure 1):…”

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Identifying Ecosystem Key Factors to Support Sustainable Water Management

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Goethals

2020

Sustainability

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There is a growing consensus that sustainable development requires a behavioral change, forced by firm decision-making. However, existing decision-supporting tools are unlikely to provide relevant information, hampered by the complexity of combined socio-economic and natural systems. Protecting the intrinsic value of ecosystems and providing sufficient natural resources for human use at the same time leads up to a wide span of management, ranging from species traits to governance. The aim of this study is to investigate the interactions between the natural and economic systems from the perspective of sustainable development. The way to reduce systems complexity by selecting key factors of ecosystem functioning for policy and management purposes is discussed. To achieve this, the Pentatope Model is used as a holistic framework, an ecosystem nodes network is developed to select key factors, and a combined natural and socio-economic valuation scheme is drawn. These key factors—abiotic resources and conditions, biodiversity, and biomass—are considered fundamental to the ecosystem properties habitat range and carrying capacity. Their characteristics are discussed in relation to sustainable water management. The conclusion is that sustainable development requires environmental decision-making that includes the intrinsic natural value, and should be supported by ecological modelling, additional environmental quality standards, and substance balances.

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“…Models can also contribute to the leanification of data collection [5] and interpretation of data [25]. More conceptual approaches and (model) reviews can contribute to the overall improvement of the analysis of uncertainty, model development, and general applicability in water management, effective policy development, and improving water governance [26].…”

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Advances in Ecological Water System Modeling: Integration and Leanification as a Basis for Application in Environmental Management

Goethals

Forio

2018

Water

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The art of applied modeling is determining an appropriate balance between integration of more processes and variables for the sake of increasing representativeness and reliability of the models, while also avoiding too long development and simulation times. The latter can be achieved via leanification, which can be based on reducing the number of variables and processes by focusing on key processes in the system and its management, but can be as well induced by using simplified methods for the description of relations among variables (such as regression and probabilistic methods) to, for instance, reduce the simulation time. In this way, integration and leanification can be combined and together contribute to models that are more relevant and convenient for use by water managers. In particular, it is crucial to find a good balance between the integration level of ecological processes answering environmental challenges in a relevant manner and costs for data collection and model development (and application).

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Using DPSIR and Balances to Support Water Governance

Cited by 26 publications

References 29 publications

A Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-Responses Framework to Support the Sustainability of Fish and Fisheries in Lake Tana, Ethiopia

A Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-Responses Framework to Support the Sustainability of Fish and Fisheries in Lake Tana, Ethiopia

Identifying Ecosystem Key Factors to Support Sustainable Water Management

Advances in Ecological Water System Modeling: Integration and Leanification as a Basis for Application in Environmental Management

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