Per/polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), regarded as “forever chemicals”, are a class of emerging contaminants occurring worldwide that pose many serious environmental issues to water quality and human health. The presence strong carbon?fluorine bonds in their backbone physicochemical properties offer them resistance restrict from breaking down into simple compounds the environment. There challen...

Mud crab Scylla serrata of Kotania Bay and Pelita Jaya Western Seram District, has been harvested by local fishermen for more than 25 years. The mud high economic value, there is always a market this fishery. dependence the forces them to harvest resource extensively. No existing management strategy extensive exploitation leads unsustainable conditions With inadequate data condition, Driver-Pre...

MULINO is an EU RTD project, funded under the FP5-EESD programme. It aims at providing a Decision Support System (DSS) targeted at solving decision problems in the management of water resources. Through the integration of socio-economic and environmental modelling techniques with geographic information system (GIS) capabilities and multi-criteria decision aids, the MULINO-DSS aspires to be an o...

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...

The evaluation of water bodies “at risk” of not achieving the Water Framework Directives goal of “good status” begs the question of how big a risk is acceptable before a programme of measures should be implemented. Adequate documentation of expert judgement and statistical uncertainty in pollution budgets and water quality modeling combined with Monte Carlo simulation and Bayesian belief networ...

Globally, forests provide several functions and services to support humans’ well-being the mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The that enable forest-dependent people communities meet their livelihood needs well-being. Nevertheless, world’s face a twin environmental problem deforestation forest degradation (D&FD), resulting in ubiquitous depletion biodiversity ecosystem eventual loss cov...

• DPSIR applied to beach contamination through data search and fieldwork. Fieldwork allowed gain insight into local pressures, state, health impact of beach-stranded. Main responses: waste removal from drainage system recycling stranded material. Local regional efforts are required build a systemic view contamination. Beaches affected by the accumulation natural anthropogenic material; however,...

Mangroves provide multiple benefits, from carbon storage and shoreline protection to food and energy for natural resource-dependent coastal communities. However, they are coming under increasing pressure from climate change, coastal development, and aquaculture. There is increasing need to better understand the changes mangroves face and whether these changes differ or are similar in different ...