POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND THE DYNAMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DIFFUSION

Abstract

This paper which is exploratory in nature examines analytical abstractions and diffusions in the study and understanding of the environment. It contends that the environment is all of the external factors affecting an organism including man and that there is an interaction of organisms within the ecosystem. It was deduced that species which coexist in the ecosystems must have evolved together for many generations and as such establish balanced interactions one with the other in such a taxonomy that all populations in the area remain relatively stable, though, natural or human disruptions could occasionally occur bringing with it unforeseen consequences to populations in an ecosystem. It is at this point that environmental abstractions manifest bringing with it environmental diffusions which show how much the sub-sets of the environment interact with the overall environmental set. This paper notes that man has greatly modified the natural process that control stability and balance within the ecosystem, which the environment cannot absorb. It then argues that it is this interrelatedness and interactions that show man’s ability at analytical attempt as prerequisite for him to synthesize and from such syntheses the composition of phenomena from their component elements and processes which have risen to serve human civilization. Accordingly, the world is increasingly uniting in the campaign to make the utmost of the environment and ultimately to secure it for the future generation through the instrumentality of sustainable development. This has led to a trans-border initiative to help solve environmental problems by way of international policy convergence which is a global regulatory pattern in environmental policy through a global effort.