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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"DPSIR"”.
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Investigation into land-use change in two contrasting areas in the Nile Delta, Egypt
… area was reclaimed from the desert. The DPSIR (driving forces, pressures, state, impacts and responses) model was adopted as the conceptual framework for organising and categorising the factors affecting landuse change in these two areas. It is a linear, `formulaic' approach, based on the …
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MODELING APPROACHES FOR CLIMATE MITIGATION IN ALPINE FORESTS.
… applies sustainability indicators within the DPSIR framework and ecological modeling to evaluate scenarios inspired by SSP narratives, linking environmental, social and economic dimensions. Results show that collaborative and sustainability-oriented pathways provide greater long-term benefits, …
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Small island developing states, sustainability and the Caribbean Sea
… and programmes. In the first component, the DPSIR in combination with GIS was applied to three islands to demonstrate the causal links between economic activities and its effects on the Caribbean Sea. The activities on these islands have resulted in loss of reef covers, reduction and loss of …
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Assessment of environmental degradation in Northern Ghana: A GIS based participatory approach
… the impacts of landmines in Cambodia. Using the DPSIR (Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response) framework of the European Environmental Agency as an assessment framework, conventional GIS techniques were integrated with participatory research tools, dubbed "community truthing", to assess the …
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An assessment of donor funded development programmes of the Anglican Church of Tanzania in the Dodoma region from 1986 - 2010
… communities, the church and donors. Using the DPSIR framework of analysis, the information collected was observed, such as the stakeholder working philosophy, the resource base and mobilization for both, human and material, the programme activities and the structural and organizational capacity …
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Effects of the agricultural sector on the physico-chemistry and the ecosystem quality of inland waters
… forces – Pressure - State – Impact - Response" (DPSIR) modeling framework and, on the other, the decision trees data mining technique with the use of an improved version of the C4.5 algorithm called See5. The datamining applications were performed in three consecutive phases. In the first phase …
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A multi-criteria decision support framework for environmental impact and vulnerability assessments of oil activities: a case study of the Niger Delta
… Driving Forces-Pressure-State-Impact- Response (DPSIR) conceptual framework was applied in this research. A review of literature revealed the absence of a multidisciplinary approach, for prioritising areas that have been degraded by oil production and transportation activities. The report first …
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Towards an African perspective of urban sustainability: evidence from Ghana.
… a Driver-Pressure- State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) conceptual framework to explore the relationship between urbanisation and sustainable development in the context of Ghana, in order to make recommendations for urban sustainability, and to develop a conceptual model that could facilitate …
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Irish Sea : a socio-ecological system
… Pressures, State-Changes-Impacts Responses (DPSIR) framework for the development of sustainability indicators, particularly when based on scientific data alone. An ontological reframing of the issues was then suggested, and scenario development was used as a means of overcoming the …
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Development of Planning Support Systems in the European context
… PSS includes an indicator framework, the spatial DPSIR, sDPSIR, based on the concept of causal chain, which may help to organise and manage spatial and non-spatial data and help to add value to the SDI digital data, through its structured framework during the plan-making phases. The LUP-SEA PSS …
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Sustentabilidade territorial face às cheias do rio Licungo: caso dos Distritos de Mocuba, Namacurra e Maganja da Costa
… de indicadores baseados no modelo conceptual DPSIR, nomeadamente: Indicadores de vulnerabilidade, prevenção e reacção às cheias. Dadas as diversas constatações, recomenda-se que as autoridades governamentais junto os parceiros melhorem o sistema de comunicação de risco e intensifiquem os …
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Integrated assessment for decision and management support within the Bahía de Cádiz Nature Park (Spain)
… por medio de la aplicación del marco conceptual DPSIR (Drivers-Pressures-States-Impacts-Responses). Este marco pretende organizar varios elementos socio-naturales bajo las categorías de Conductores, Presiones, Estados, Impactos y Respuestas. Los resultados incluyen un primer mapa conceptual que …
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Uso sostenibile dei suoli forestali di ambiente costiero in relazione ai fattori di pressione esistenti
… sono state inserite in un modello concettuale DPSIR (Driving forces, Pressures, States, Impacts, Responces) dove sono stati prospettati, in via qualitativa, alcuni scenari in funzione di possibili risposte gestionali verosimilmente attuabili, al fine di modificare le pressioni che insistono sul …
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Towards supporting cohesive decision making across water, energy and food through understanding challenges in Malawi
… a national level. These were analysed using the DPSIR (drivers-pressures-states-impacts-response) framework to understand the key intersectoral challenges and how they interacted. From these conversations with Government officials a series of challenges emerged including deforestation, climate …
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Restoring freshwater quality: an integrated environmental, economic and ecosystem services assessment of reducing nutrient loads to Lake Rotorua
… the Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) model. Important management and environmental changes were used as independent variables in the year of their occurrence. Results of a Generalised Maximum Entropy (GME) regression, a specialised multinomial regression that is suitable for …