Research Institute for Nature Management, Leersum, The Netherlands.
Environ Monit Assess. 1983 Sep;3(3-4):219-26. doi: 10.1007/BF00396214.
Quality assessments with respect to our environment are done in many different ways. Generally these assessments are connected with functions which the environment has to accomplish for man. These are partial approaches in which some characteristics are selected from the complex reality. Although such assessments are useful for the solution of conflicts, they are insufficient for long term strategies. We need a view on the totality, the 'self-ordering' of nature. Judgements based upon such a concept can be placed opposite the economical ones, which follow conscious ordering by man. Quality concepts like these can have a meaning in different fields: - In conflicts between interests. Many times we are aware that ecological arguments are much stronger than we are able to express. A universal concept helps to find a reconciliation of points of view. - In current quality-assessments. By comparing them to a universal concept we can experience the opportunities for the long term in short-term solutions. - In policy-making we are overflowed almost daily by economic value concepts pretending to be all-embracing. Ecologists have to counter them.
我们可以通过多种不同的方式对环境质量进行评估。通常，这些评估都与环境对人类必须履行的功能有关。这些是局部的方法，其中从复杂的现实中选择了一些特征。尽管此类评估对于解决冲突很有用，但它们对于长期战略而言是不够的。我们需要从整体上看待自然的“自我秩序”。基于这种概念的判断可以与遵循人类有意识的秩序的经济判断相对立。此类质量概念在不同领域可能具有意义：-在利益冲突中。很多时候，我们都意识到生态论点比我们能够表达的要强大得多。一个普遍的概念有助于找到观点的和解。-在当前的质量评估中。通过将它们与普遍的概念进行比较，我们可以在短期解决方案中体验到长期的机会。-在政策制定中，我们几乎每天都会被那些假装无所不包的经济价值概念所淹没。生态学家必须加以抵制。
