The Response component in DPSIR and the SES dynamical stability

Abstract

DPSIR implies a dynamical model of Socio-Ecological System (SES) including a negative feedback loop. Within such model, all the five components of DPSIR can be located on the basis of the actually collected data flows, even if the pattern of their mutual interactions appears to be somewhere different from what is usually postulated. Also the role played by each component can be reconsidered. Specifically, the Response component refers to the actions carried out by the humans in order to safeguard the State component in a range of values acceptable for both the protection of the natural ecosystem and the improvement of the well-being of the human society. Design and implementation of Response should take into account the dynamical properties of SES as a whole, as far as those dynamical properties can be estimated on the basis of the DPSIR data flows. In such a way, it could be minimized the risk of implementing actions that affect the system stability.