Taxonomy of processes
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Based on [Donges2016], 
we classify processes into three major *taxons*:
:doc:`environment<environment>`,
:doc:`social metabolism<social_metabolism>`,
and :doc:`culture<culture>`.

We give only a rough definition and abstain from defining a finer, hierarchical taxonomy,
being aware that gaining consensus among different disciplines on such a taxonomy would be unlikely,
and thus leaving the assignment of individual processes and attributes to either taxon to the respective model component developers:

.. TODO: Make the following definitions a little more accessible by changing the wording? Relate more clearly to the figure and add our own figure.

.. image:: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/eng/bilder/gr_theorie.gif

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   environment
   social_metabolism
   culture


.. [Donges2016] Donges, J. F., Lucht, W., Heitzig, J., Cornell, S., Lade, S., & Schlüter, M. (2016). A taxonomy of co-evolutionary interactions in the planetary social-ecological system as represented in models. Working Paper, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.