DPSIR Concepts: Response

Humans make decisions in Response to the impacts on ecosystem services or their perceived value.

Responses are actions taken by groups or individuals in society and government to prevent, compensate, ameliorate or adapt to changes in the state of the environment by seeking to

• Control drivers or pressures through regulation, prevention, or mitigation
• Directly maintain or restore the state of the environment
• Deliberately "do nothing"

Decision making processes occur at a variety of scales, from individuals to local management to federal government.