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The inclusion of ecosystem development goals would be an important aspect for environmental planning and management, particularly, with respect to the aspect of sustainability. However, eco targets and orientors such as self-organization principles, energy-dissipation, catastrophe topologies, exergy and lolling cycles compiled by analysts to determine the inherent principles of ecosystem development, may provide “intriguing perspectives for further study and some intuitive images of what a healthy environment is all about. But they have not been made practically operational for routine application” (Regier 1993). These impressions had also arisen by discussing the possibilities of using orientors as a tool for the planning process according to the contributed papers in this chapter. Orientors appear to be more of an idealistic picture of the desirable state of ecosystems, being in harmony and without any human influence. They are either designed within more theoretical (modeled) worlds of ideas, e.g. as background for dynamic modeling based on physical laws mostly or derived from measurements and surveys of natural ecosystems. That means, they try to describe a more or less optimal state or functioning of ecosystems. If orientors should be used as tools in environmental planning and management, various requirements have to be met. |
