DPSIR - two decades of trying to develop a unifying framework for marine environmental management?

Determining and assessing the links between human pressures and state-changes in marine and coastal ecosystems remains a challenge. Although there are several conceptual frameworks for describing these links, the DPSIR (Drivers – Pressures – State change – Impact – Response) framework has been widel...

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Main Authors: Joana Patrício, Michael Elliott, Krysia Mazik, Nadia Papadopoulou, Christopher Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmars.2016.00177/full