The United Nations Environmental Programmed GEO5 Report issued in 2012 founded that "burgeoning populations and growing economies are pushing ecosystems to destabilizing limits." The Report notes a change in emphasis from a focus on environmental "drivers" as opposed to the earlier emphasis on environmental "pressures."
a. Explain the difference between environmental drivers and pressures. Provide examples of each.
b. Describe both the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of the population and economic development drivers.
c. Explain the "links' between the drivers and pressures.