Applicazione n.3

Using the template sheet provided in next 2 slides, do the following:

• Select one specific environmental issue that can be classified as an environmental state. How has this state changed over time?;

• Identify a societal pressure directly affecting the environmental state. What natural disturbances might be causing your environmental state to change?;

• Identify general societal drivers with broad influence on the pressure and environmental state;

• Given the change in your environmental state, what are some of the key impacts (ecosystem services and on human well-being); and

• What policy responses were directed at restoring or enhancing the environment (e.g., had influence on the environmental state, pressures and driving forces). What policy responses helped communities and businesses to adapt to the environmental impacts?

1Politiche agroambientali

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HUMAN SOCIETY

ENVIRONMENT

STATE and TRENDS

RESPONSES

PRESSURES

Natural processes:

DRIVERS

Step 2

Step 1

Step 1

Step 1

Step 3

Step 1 What is happening to the environment and why?

Step 2 What are the consequences for the environment and humanity?

Step 3 What is being done and how effective is it?

Direct influence through human interventions

IMPACTS

Well-being:

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HUMAN SOCIETY

STATE and TRENDS

IMPACTS

Human well-being

Economic, Social Goods & Services

RESPONSES

Mitigation and adaptation

PRESSURES

Sectors

Human influences

Natural processes

DRIVERS

Step 3

Ecosystem Services

Indirect influence through human development

Water, land, atmosphere, biodiversity

Responses for Mitigation and Adaptation

mitigation & restoration

adaptation

mitigation & restoration

mitigation & restoration

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