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Background Knowledge

DPSIR Framework

DPSIR framework
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The DPSIR framework helps to structure complex human-environmental systems into a sequence from Driver, Pressure, State to Impact and Response (DPSIR). Due to its generic character, it can be used to investigate impacts of soil management on environmental and societal systems, to summarise existing knowledge of soil management research, and to detect research gaps. The DPSIR framework analytically links soil management (pressure) to soil functions (state) and its services (impact) that are assessed from the perspective of societal goals such as resource use efficiency or ecosystem services. Informed by the assessment results, society may react, governance may be adjusted (response) and steer soil management into a new direction (creating new drivers and restarting the sequence).

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