《Assessing Agricultural Sustainable Development Based on the DPSIR ApproachCase Study in Jiangsu China》.pdfVIP

Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2013, 12(7): 1292-1299 July 2013 RESEARCH ARTICLE Assessing Agricultural Sustainable Development Based on the DPSIR Approach: Case Study in Jiangsu, China 1 2 2 1 2 ZHOU Shu-dong , Felix Mueller , Benjamin Burkhard , CAO Xing-jin and HOU Ying 1 Jiangsu Research Base of Rural Development and Land Policy, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P.R.China 2 Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Department of Ecosystem Management, University of Kiel, Kiel D-24118, Germany Abstract According to the contemporary ecosystem approach, the linkages of human actions with their environment have to be assessed in an integrative manner. The Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) model is applied to identify and describe processes and interactions in human-environmental systems. An example application from a research project dealing with the development of sustainable management strategies for the agriculture in Jiangsu, China, illustrates the potentials and limitations of its sustainable development. The concept and indicators of ecological integrity are used to assess the indicators in the dimensions of DPSIR between 2003 and 2006. The main drivers included population growth which caused increasing demand for food, growing environmental demands, and rapidly decreasing of land and other natural resources. The main environmental problem was water pollution. The results show that in the dimension of driver, total grain output and agricultural land productivity both increased. Labor intensive agriculture has been promoted to increase agricultural land productivity. In the dimension of pressure, on the positiv