Original scientific paper
SUSTAINING THE BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY – BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND CONFLICT OF RESOURCES
Christoph Gorg
; Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Institute of social and political analysis, Frankfurt
Abstract
The social reseach on the conflict concerning the biological diversity is still far from achieving the scope and intensity that can be observed in dealing with other global environmental issues, especially with climatic changes. Except from a fatal reduction of the issue to the “extinction of arts”, it has also to do with the its complexity. In this area, the separation of the environmental issues from social issues and conflicts of socal distibution is much less possible than in other areas. This is so because the environmental issues in a narrower sense are intertwined with the distribution and use of natural, and especially genetic resources. In the first part of the paper presented are sociological approaches to the conflict area of biological diversity. The second part offers a survey of various aspects of the conflict, which are mutually interconnected. Those aspects are not reduced only to the North–South–relationship, but also include concflicts within the North and the South, between national governments and various groups of the concerned, or between local conflict sites and global regulation levels.
Keywords
biological diversity; environmental conflicts; extinction of arts; new biopolicy; resource conflicts; social distribution; social natural relationships
Hrčak ID:
141701
URI
Publication date:
15.9.1999.
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