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Ontology: Natural Order


Spatial Scope: focus is on the earth, including seas.

Temporal Scope: now and the future.

Ecosystem services to humankind: services that the natural environment provides to people:

  • critical materials
  • environmental conditions
  • waste assimilation

Impact of human economic activity: Depends on magnitude, concentration, dissipation, and transformation of flows of material and energy.

Antropogenic Change: Mankind's activities influence the environment, and the climate. According to the IPCC 4th Assessment Report "Climate Change Synthesis Report" these activities have a strong and risk-prone impact on the earth's atmosphere and climate. More details on global plans to cope with such impact and its consequences are at UNFCCC Website.

These plans involve also the Social Order and the Techno Order.


The most complex natural orders include biotopes and habitats.


The sections 0 to 6 of the Central Product Classification rely on eco-system services that are part of the natural order:


The elements and living creatures we find in the natural order include