ABSTRACT
It appears difficult to see how the many factors of importance for the development of ecosystems could be maximised, minimised or optimised at two or more levels simultaneously. However, contemporary cybernetics elaborates directions suggesting that in society and in technical systems unified goals do not always exist. Moreover, very often the opposite is true. Branches dealing with the mathematical formulation of such systems are called ‘theory of hierarchical system’ (Mesarovic et al., 1970), ‘multi-objective optimisation’ (Peschel and Riedel, 1976) and ‘theory of games’ (Germeyer, 1976). In an economic system, multidimensional optimisation is often relatively easy because the system uses a common currency, money.
