Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research (Print ISSN: 1533-3590; Online ISSN: 1533-3604)

Short commentary: 2022 Vol: 23 Issue: 3

THE BIOPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Dickes Owen, Marshall University

Citation Information: Ow en, D. (2022). The biophysical foundations of socio-economic systems. Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, 23(3), 1-2.

Abstract

Organic farming is one of the most well-known alternative production techniques, with benefits to the soil, ecology, health, and financial well-being of agricultural communities. The rapid rise in market interest in organic products gives an incredible potential for organic agriculture expansion. It is critical to have a full grasp of the context-specific motives of farmers for adopting organic farming systems so that relevant policy measures can be implemented. A systematic farm survey was done in a rural region with the goal of studying the social and biophysical motives of conventional and organic cotton producers for adopting their respective growing strategies. The research area was chosen because it is a major cotton-growing region with existing conventional and organic farms operating under similar conditions.

Keywords

Bio-Physical, Socio-Economic, Organic, Comparable.

Introduction

Because of the socio-spatial intricacy of innovation, innovators are part of a milieu, a non-linear web of individuals entangled inside a commercial and industrial development region. Knowledge flows between innovators, which appears to be a complicated attraction in the sphere of innovation. People who are engaged in a certain technology or who are fascinated about innovation, as well as individuals with entrenched business or policy interests, are drawn to new ideas. Creative attraction is chaotic since it looks to be self-organizing and lacks a singular point of origin or end-goal. Geographical areas on the whole are complicated, incorporating many natural and socioeconomic systems (Pingali, 2012).

People are drawn to fertile land or locations with abundant mineral deposits, as well as to urban areas with plenty of jobs. Roads, railways, and air links, for example, are infrastructural developments that span regions and increase the commercial potential of places for commerce or recreation. In the sense that characteristics of transportation at the metropolis level can also be detected at the neighbourhood level, urban regions are nested. Regions are nested structures in general. The patterns we see at the regional level are reproduced in all of the region's localities: the small node and path are linked to the main node and path (Qaim & Kouser, 2013).

These elements related to organic and traditional farming groups with various farm holdings were distributed into separate coordinate quadrants, clearly identifying the biophysical motivating features of each group, identical to the sociological motivational characters. The stated biophysical parameters are the most common ones impacting the surveyed conventional and organic farms because the first and second components together account for the overall difference. As demonstrated by their length of channels in the first quadrant, the current pricing of cotton, avoiding pesticide exposure, and closed nutrient cycles proved to be more relevant influences on overall variation than others. The benefits of being free from external inputs, and the premium price, were lower production costs and a lower danger of incompetence (Reganold et al., 2001).

A closer examination of the general information that large-scale organic farmers were much more concerned with closed nutrient cycles in order to lessen their reliance on external inputs, but medium- and certified farm farmers were clearly driven by the higher price of sustainable sources. Profitability/financial return are becoming a bigger decision-making consideration in opting for organic, according to the findings of this study and other studies in advanced economies. Large-scale conventional farmers, on the other hand, did not choose organic agriculture because they thought that high dividend was the secret to improving, which can only be attained through traditional methods (Downes et al., 2016).

Medium-sized conventional farmers, like social motivational reasons, did not take biophysical variables into account while deciding to adopt conventional farming. Small-scale commercial growers believed that fertiliser application was critical to improving the productivity of their soils. Furthermore, farmers' acceptance or abandonment of a given farming system may be influenced by opportunism choices influenced by changing situations.

Planners have been applying developing conceptions of sustainability to the modern discussion over how communities and regions must be revived, regenerated, and reformed since the introduction of sustainability in development science. 'Sustainability' is viewed as either the appropriate means or the appropriate objective of urban development. In today's planning circles, efforts to overcome problems of urban growth, congestion, and decline are commonly referred to as a quest for urban sustainability. This is true even though there is no consensus in urban theory on which human communities embody sustainability (Bagla, 2010).

The term "urban sustainability" can refer to a city's vitality as a complex system, its residents' quality of life, or nature's capacity to sustain its activities. Some critics limit this concept to a city's economic sustainability, or its ability to "achieve fundamentally a new level of social economic, demographic, and technical output that, in the long run, supports the underpinnings of the metropolitan system."

Conclusion

The term "urban sustainability" can refer to a city's vitality as a complex system, its residents' quality of life, or nature's capacity to sustain its activities. Some critics limit this concept to a city's economic sustainability, or its ability to "achieve fundamentally a new level of social economic, demographic, and technical output that, in the long run, supports the underpinnings of the metropolitan system."

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Received: 05-May-2022, Manuscript No. JEEER-22-112; Editor assigned: 07-May-2022, PreQC No. JEEER-22-111(PQ); Reviewed: 19-May-2022, QC No. JEEER-22-112; Revised: 20-May-2022, Manuscript No. JEEER-22-112(R); Published: 27-May-2022

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