Konferenzpaper

Erschienen in: Ecosystems and sustainable development IV, Volume 2

Herausgeberliste: Tiezzi, E; Brebbia, C.A.

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2003

Seiten: 1079-1089

ISBN: 1-85312-804-X

URL: https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment/64/1738

Konferenz: 4th International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development

Serientitel: Advances in ecological sciences

Serienzählung: 19

Abstract: 

This paper discusses the potential for modeling nature and man in an exchange economy that comprises food, labor, land, and plant nutrients. The paper is habitat and landscape oriented and solves land conflicts, at least theoretically. We discuss the need for exchange values in addition to human valuation of nature. We review basic ideas of an exchange economy and its institutional setting; in particular, those of a principal-agent. In a model we show how the assumption of this institution works in determining jointly human and nature exchange, values, and land use. Issues such as property rights, a nature objective, services to be exchanged, recycling, etc., will be introduced. The principal-agent framework will deliver a mutually beneficial exchange. The exchange tackles labor consuming nutrient recycling, and a problem oriented statement will touch on property rights definition issues. In modeling a cooperative land use strategy that recognizes mutual rights we reconstruct habitat and land use. By arguing in this framework we will gain a deeper insight into the interaction of landscape appearance, nutrient recycling, scarcity, evaluation and value generation. A further basic assumption is that there is a duality of instruments to get insight into nature's values. We use fitness, separately from the human objective, utility, to indicate scarcity in the human and natural sphere. To communicate values, alternative research outlines on nature scarcities are described and the implication for the management of agricultural prone eco-systems are investigated.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Nuppenau, E. (2003) Nature and human interests in ecosystems: on farmers and species interaction, nutrient recycling and scarcities in agricultural landscapes, in Tiezzi, E. and Brebbia, C. (eds.) Ecosystems and sustainable development IV, Volume 2. Southampton: WIT Press. pp. 1079-1089. https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment/64/1738

APA-Zitierstil: Nuppenau, E. (2003). Nature and human interests in ecosystems: on farmers and species interaction, nutrient recycling and scarcities in agricultural landscapes. In Tiezzi, E., & Brebbia, C. (Eds.), Ecosystems and sustainable development IV, Volume 2. (pp. 1079-1089). WIT Press. https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment/64/1738