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| Table 2.9
Chapter summary showing DPSIR categories and the indicators falling
into each category |
| Category |
Climate &
Atmospheric
Change |
Freshwater
Ecosystems |
Marine & Coastal
Ecosystems |
Social Dimension |
Economic
Dimension |
Political Dimension |
| Driving forces |
Demand for
resources, e.g.
energy production |
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Population growth
and mobility
inequality,
settlement patterns |
International
demand for
resources, and
drive to export |
Settlement policies,
agricultural subsidies,
forestry policies.
Land Restitution |
| Pressures |
Industrial
emissions and
effluents, pollution
and waste |
Alien invasive
plants and forest
plantations have
high water
demands |
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Demand for
resources such as
fuel wood, grazing
land, crop
production.
Use of natural
resources for
medicinal purposes |
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| State |
Climate change |
Soil erosion by
wind and water |
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Urbanisation |
Agricultural and
forestry
productivity, net
foreign exchange
and employment |
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| Impacts |
Change in species
tolerance levels,
change in
distribution of
species and
biomes |
Siltation of dams,
eutrophication of
water bodies |
Siltation of
estuaries |
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| Responses |
Ratification of
FCCC |
Convention to
Combat
Desertification,
New Water Act,
soil conservation
practices |
New Water Act,
soil conservation
practices |
Soil conservation
practices, National
grazing Strategy,
Stock reduction
schemes, White
Paper on
Conservation &
Sustainable Use of
SA's Biological
Diversity |
Convention on
biodiversity |
Recent policy and
legislation,
international
conventions |
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There is also information about Terrestrial Ecosystems in the following reports:
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Metropolitan reports:
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