Title: AN APPLICATION OF ECON-ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE IN THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION
Abstract: An economic society, an ecosystem in which human economic activities are considered as a core, includes complex material metabolic processes and various mental factors. The development of a society involves a profound chang in the economic structures within itself and between societies as well. In recent years, both nautral resources and human living environment have been seriously damaged in many countries due to their ignorance of some basic laws of an ecosystem in the process of high-speed economic development. This will compel these countries to have no choice but to be faced with that their natural ecosystem will not be able to support an ever-expanding population or is about to forfeit a lot of effective space suitable for inhabitants to live in unless they take emergency means to stop all that will destroy natural resources and deteriorate environment. Hence, while developing any of large economic construction projects, human beings must consider both of its economic and ecological benefits so as to keep the ecosystem regenerative for ever.Economic ecology, a borderline science formed by interpenetration between economics and ecology, belongs to a branch of ecology and its contents may embrace the three aspects as follows:A. To study certain ecological problems, including the effect of the social ecosystem and human economic activities on natural ecosystems, as well as analyze and evaluate the economic value of structure and function in an ecosystem by means of economic viewpoint and methodology.B. To study ecological problems airsing in the high-speed development of economy, such as the ecological assessment of ecological balance disturbance and environmental pollution, making decisions for their management as well as the harmonization of economic and ecological benefits in the economic development, etc.,C. To put economic and ecological principles together as an econ-ecological principle we should follow in the agricultural and industrial construction, such as layout of factories, water conservation facilities, management of natural resources, land utilization, operation and management of farming, animal husbandry and fishery, and establishment of natural protection areas, etc., so that the achievements in the construction may coincide with both indices of the economic benefit and demands of the ecological benefit.Econ-ecological principle may be summarized as follows: A: On the principle of regarding the overall economic benefits of all components involved as an economic benefit of the construction project or the whole system, not the achievements of one subproject of the project or one subsystem of the whole system as an index of economic benefit, we should attach great importance to the whole productive forces which are well coordinated, but not seek after the output value of one subproject of the project which detracts from the whole interests.B: on the principle of suiting the structure, function and regenerative power of an ecosystem to each other, we should make an assessment of the structure with the functional efficiency and regenerative power, and raise the level of the metabolic function in the ecosystem, including anabolism and catabolism, with the simplied, high-efficacy structure.C: On the principle of the equivalence of the efficiency of material consumption to that of transformation of materials at different levels, we should pay great attention both to the structures of different levels and to the ecological efficiencies of the transfer of energy and material flows between food chains.D: On the principle of coordinate development of agriculture and industry in proportion as a country grows in natural resources and utilize them, we should manage to make the planned production of materials and the market supplies and demands well coordinated, and to make the rate of human population growth suited to the production and consumption of materials as well as human living standard.E: On the principle of keeping the balance of input, utilization, transformation, storage and output of both energy and mate
Publication Year: 1983
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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