Introduction to DPSIR Framework

Han Wang

March 9th, 2012

What is it?

• A strategy for Integrated Environment Assessment (IEA) adopted by European Environment Agency (EEA)

• As an approach to manage environmental problems, it presents:– indicators needed to enable

feedback to policy makers on environmental quality

– resulting impact of the political choices made, or to be made

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Driver

Pressure

State

Impact

Response

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Example

• Water resource management– State of waters

• How is it? (nutrients, pesticides, heavy metals, …)• How much is there? (runoff, availability, demands, …)

– Time trends• Getting better or worse?• Within or outside agreed limits?

– What is causing the problems?– Pressures on the environment

• Human• Industrial• Agricultural

– State of actions or policies• Are they working towards targets?

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Informatics & Semantics

• Informatics provides interoperability among diverse and heterogeneous data and information sources

• Semantic web technologies capture knowledge from data

• DPSIR domain ontology

• Information products (figures, tables) are produced to present the elements of DPSIR

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DPSIR Ontology

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Summary

• DPSIR is an approach for environment/ecosystem assessment.

• It identifies five different classes of indicators, which can be mapped to the needs of environmental management/evaluation.

• Ontology with DPSIR helps.

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References

• P. Kristensen, The DPSIR Framework, Workshop on a comprehensive / detailed assessment of the vulnerability of water resources to environmental change in Africa using river basin approach, UNEP Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya, September 2004.

• P. S. Levin, M. J. Fogarty, G. C. Matlock, and M. Ernst, Integrated Ecosystem Assessment, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-92, June 2008

• S. Karetsos, D. Haralampopoulos, and K Kotis, An Ontology-based framework for Authoring Tools in the Domain of Sustainable Energy Education.

• P. Fox and A. Mafffei, Facilitating Next Generation Science Collaboration: Respecting and Mediating Vocabularies with Semantics in Ecosystems Assessments. AGU 11 IN33E-01, December 2011.

• P. Fox, A. Maffei, M. DiStefano, S. Lawrence, and C. Chandler. The Integrated Ecosystems Assessment Initiative – Enabling the Assessment of Impacts on Large Marine Ecosystems: Informatics to the Forefront of Science Based Decision Support.

• http://www.grida.no/graphicslib/detail/dpsir-framework-for-state-of-environment-reporting_379f#

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