SEDA components + definitions

Descriptors

Context

Descriptors

Descriptors

SectorActivity

Responses

Frames

Regulates

Generates

Decreases

Descriptors

Pressure

Improves

Impacts

HumanComponent

EcologicalComponent

Descriptors

Descriptors

Pressure

Defined as Immediate Causes in the Causal Chain Analysis. It is thus the immediate connection between human activities and nature, at which the environmental issue appears (e.g. overfishing and not fishing as such, overloading of nutrients and not simply nutrient input, collisions and not maritime traffic, all types of pollutants…).

Ecological component

Changes observed in the environment, as measured by the state descriptors, and that are considered as a degradation justifying action.

Human component

Changes in human wellbeing of present and future generations directly resulting from the changes in the environment, including economic losses, degradation of life quality, and loss of critical natural capital.

Sector Activity

These are the sectors, including specific activities, actors, and practices that are under the influence of the social drivers and that modify the state of the environment.