A systems perspective on the interrelations between natural, human-made and cultural capital

摘要: In recent years substantial progress has been achieved in the field of ecological economics for clarifying human-nature interrelations. The fundamental role life-support functions environment (Odum, 1975) economic development and sustainability entered from ecology into economics, started to be theoretically as well empirically analyzed. This has, part, given rise terminology natural capital human-made capital. contrast assumptions standard theory, economists regard fundamentally complementary. Natural its derived goods services are preconditions or basis development. It is not possible human ingenuity create without support (e.g. Daly, 1990). Moreover, it approach by only focusing on these two factors, We need a third dimension, what we refer cultural capital, well. From systems perspective, emphasize that three types strongly interrelated form guiding society towards sustainability.