This document presents proposals for the design and implementation of a Baseline Survey for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). It has been prepared at the request of the Secretariat of the UNCCD. The Baseline Survey is to be initiated as part of the UNCCD's Ten Year Strategic Plan, and will form the starting point for monitoring long-term trends in desertification so that prog...

Abstract Purpose This study has two aims: first, propose the use of driver-pressure-state-impact-response (DPSIR) framework to expand normal focus impact pathways in social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) on endpoint impacts a systematic analysis find links between main sources issues and impacts; second, develop new method quantify lifetime health economic outcomes associated with subcategories,...

This study explores the integration of ecosystem services and climate change adaptation in development plans for coastal wetlands in Bangladesh. A new response framework for adaptation is proposed, based on an empirical analysis and consultations with stakeholders, using a modified version of the DPSIR (Driver-Pressure-State-ImpactResponse) framework. The framework is tested in the Narail distr...

Abstract. Rahmawaty, Rauf, A, Harahap MM, Kurniwan H. 2022. Land cover change impact analysis: an integration of remote sensing, GIS and DPSIR framework to deal with degraded land in Lepan Watershed, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 23: 3000-3011. The Watershed is located Sumatra Province, types the were examined analyze changes over periods five years ten (2009-2014-2019). This study us...

Cultural heritage often mirrors the evolution of social and economic dynamics territories. In Taranto, a city in Apulia southern Italy, cultural represents synthesis profound environmental crisis that has characterised over last century. Its loss is order day following repeated collapses static instability. Probably, this result strong conditioning large industrial groups military institutions ...