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Hello!

Is anyone who will attend the second meeting of the International Society 
for Ecological Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 3-6, 1992 ? I will have
a presentation in that conferrence. The title of the paper is " Ecosystem 
Configurations and the Maximum Respiration Principle". The summary of it
is listed in the latter part of this article.

I'd like to communicate to someone who will attend the meeting or who is
interested in that kind of subjects.

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Title: Ecosystem Configurations and the Maximum Respiration Principle 

One of the serious reason why our society is losing the sustainability is 
in the inconsistency between the way mankind tries to organize components of 
biosphere and the way the internal forces of ecosystems organizes
them. Therefore, it is an urgent issue to understand how ecosystems reach 
the stable configurations of biological components and what are their internal
forces. 

B.Hannon, in 1976, posed 'The Energy Storage Maximizing 
Hypothesis' (ESMH) as forces functioning in the macro ecosystems. ESMH, 
however, contradicts the facts that the ratio 
production/respiration in each ecosystem approaches to 1 as succession 
occurs and that decomposers, which activities aim at the minimization of 
the energy storage, play important roles in ecosystems. 

These facts mean, 
conversely, that macro ecosystems tend to maximize the utilization of 
total inflow of energy or to maximize the level of the total respiration. 
This is refered to as 'The Maximum Respiration Principle' (MRP). MRT
means that ecosystems intends to attain the maximum efficiency of energy 
utilization and to avoid the production of waste materials including 
usable energy.

As the theoretical studies of how MRT works, we use the von Neumann type of
network model, which is the most flexible model in linear input-output 
models. 
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Toyoaki Washida

Wakayama University
Faculty of Economics
930 Sakaedani
Wakayama, 640
Japan
(Tel. 0734-54-0361,ext.3220)
(Fax. 0734-54-0390)
(E-maile: toyo-w@wusun.center.wakayama-u.ac.jp)