Anthropo-ecological approach as a theoretical background for political decision-making on solving the ecological problems

At the beginning of the 1970s was in the Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences developed a theoretical and methodological model called the anthropo-ecological system based on the principle of interregulation between three subsystems (biosphere, technosphere, anthropospere). The most important principle between them is the interregulation between biological and economical reproduction processes in the system, based on energo-material and information flows as a background for development. This theoretical approach was later used for methodology and preparing background papers for decision-making. The problem was to coordinate the different approaches of specialized scientific disciplines of nature and social sciences. The background paper has to be prepared on three levels: (1) synthesis of different scientific disciplines and experiments, (2) synthesis from the point of view of biosphere (natural sciences), technosphere (technical and branch-economy); and anthroposphere (social and macroeconomy); (3) anthropoecological synthesis assessing and combining all three approaches in a complex background paper. It has to describe the problem, the solutions propsed in several variants showing all consequences. Every decision based on this material had to be considered as an “experiment pro future” and its results constantly followed in its results in the whole anthropo-ecological system as a kind of “circular process of cognition and decision-making”.