Beschreibung:
<p>While we all recognize the presence of several resources in a given ecosystem, the organization of our analytical techniques and indeed the whole of our industrial society on a disciplinary basis leads to single-minded exploitation. The high costs of this approach to resource analysis lead to profound ecological disruption, while their distribution can lead to unanticipated social tension. An alternative approach which employs interdisciplinary synthesis to identify production alternatives, quantify the social and ecological costs of these alternatives, and identify appropriate economic control mechanisms is proposed.</p>