Bell, Simon
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2012.04.029 |
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Abstract
The Drivers, Pressures, State, Impact and Response or DPSIR framework has been with us for over a decade now and it is widely used as a means to assess and measure and, eventually provide a guide to managing the environment. With its repertoire of diagnostic and analytical components the DPSIR can be argued to be a Problem Structuring Method or PSM. Criticisms of the framework abound but it has a resilience which is noteworthy. Some argue that DPSIR, by its nature, is a narrowly formulated, engineering device, incompatible with the multiple perspectives which human interaction in global ecology requires. Is there a value in DPSIR being more flexible in expression and experience of users? In this article it is shown how the DPSIR framework was applied within a multi-methodology approach called Imagine in a number of coastal management projects around the Mediterranean and in other contexts. The article argues that DPSIR, whilst admittedly limited in its scope and approach can, if applied in a participatory and systemic multi-methodology, combine with other tools and help to create outcomes of value to local populations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2012 Elsevier B.V. |
| ISSN: | 0377-2217 |
| Keywords: | DPSIR; PSM (Problem Structuring Method); Imagine; coastal sustainability |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Communication and Systems |
| Item ID: | 33872 |
| Depositing User: | Simon Bell |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2012 13:27 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2013 22:39 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/33872 |
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