Biodiversity and landscape diversity as indicators of sustainable development
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2021
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E3S Web of Conferences 255
Abstract
The main purpose of the article is to substantiate the restrictive
content of a sustainable development concept and to show how it is
implemented in the theoretical foundations of the agriculture. Today, the
initial restrictive content of the concept has changed beyond recognition in
a continued large-scale consumption of natural resources. Consequently,
the very concept of sustainability requires clarification. It is necessary to
look for its signs in natural ecosystems, where the main indicator is life
itself, maintained by the biosphere in a state of stable dynamic equilibrium.
Introducing monoculture, people deliberately impoverish biodiversity in
agroecosystems, by transforming natural into agro-landscapes. Adaptive
technologies could be the means to achieve a stable balance. In that case,
the mechanisms of matter-energy metabolism in agroecosystems will be
closer to the biosphere. The article lays out a set of measures through
which the use of nature can be closer to general scientific ideas of
sustainability.
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sustainable development, agriculture
Citation
Sergiy Sonko, Nadiya Maksymenko, OlhaVasylenko, Viktoriia Chornomorets and Iryna Koval. Biodiversity and landscape diversity as indicators of sustainable development. E3S Web of Conferences. Volume 255 (2021). International Conference on Sustainable, Circular Management and Environmental Engineering (ISCMEE 2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202125501046