coexistence
Coexistence describes the simultaneous existence of different systems.
It is often understood as the peaceful but independent coexistence of two (more) things.
In a political context, peaceful coexistence describes, for example, the Cold War phase from 1962 to 1979, during which the two world powers worked together more cooperatively. In the debate about the cultivation of transgenic plants, coexistence is understood as the spatial and temporal cultivation of transgenic and non-transgenic plants side by side.
In the biological sense, a coexistence of two species is only possible if two resources are available and both species have different affinities to the respective resources, i.e. if they manage with limited resources. The keyword “coexistence” also means the problem of growing genetically modified plants together with unchanged crops. The transfer of alien genes (transgenes) must be excluded.
In the physical sense, the principle of coexistence means that the normally mutually exclusive manifestations of matter , such as local and non-local, coherent and non-coherent, can be detected simultaneously in a certain transition area, i.e. are present by measurement. One speaks of partial localization and partial coherence or of partial visibility and partial distinguishability.
If two equally strong groups face each other and both groups recognize that they want to tolerate the conviction of the other group for the sake of peace and their own interests, then this is a form of coexistence.
literature
- Guy Ankerl: Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations. Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western; a scientific essay (= Global Communication without universal civilization. 1). INU Press, Geneva 2000, ISBN 2-88155-004-5 .
- Volker Beckmann, Claudio Soregaroli, Justus Wesseler: Coexistence. In: David Castle, Peter Phillips, Stuart Smyth (Eds.): Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Chapter 25.
- Volker Beckmann, Claudio Soregaroli, Justus Wesseler: Ex-Ante Regulation and Ex-Post Liability under Uncertainty and Irreversibility: Governing the Coexistence of GM Crops. In: Economics. Volume 4, No. 9, 2010. economics-ejournal.org
- Volker Beckmann, Justus Wesseler: Spatial Dimension of Externalities and the Coase Theorem: Implications for Coexistence of Transgenic Crops. In: W. Heijman (Ed.): Regional Externalities. Springer, Berlin 2007, pp. 215-234.
- Rolf Groeneveld, Justus Wesseler, Paul Berentsen: Dominos in the dairy: An analysis of transgenic maize in Dutch dairy farming. In: Ecological Economics. 86 (2), 2013, pp. 107-116.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Y. Devos et al .: How can flexibility be integrated into coexistence regulations? A review. In: J Sci Food Agric. 94 (3), 2014, pp. 381-387. doi: 10.1002 / jsfa.6358