Discuss the concepts of Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response

Discuss the concepts of Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response and R2R  and the type of data needed to operationalize them? Why is economics important in the analysis of the environmental status/ ecological integrity? Excessive economic activities in our communities may damage the environment It is a timely and most pressing concern that we ought to consider in pursuing development. It is an open book that, our electricity is being produced from sources such as hydropower, oil, and geothermal energy. Each of these sources entails harm to the environment and elicits environmental changes/damages from its operations. The policymakers carefully weigh the trade-off/s between the development and environmental status in terms of economic and environmental benefits and costs