Process taxon “Environment”

The environment process taxon is meant to consist of the processes from material subsystems of the Earth system that have no or only negligible human-targeted physical imprints (e.g., “ocean-athmosphere diffusion”, “growth of unmanaged vegetation”, and maybe “decay of former waste dumps”) and those of their parameters which cannot easily be attached to specific entity-types (e.g. a globally constant “diffusion coefficient”). We expect most environmental processes to deal primarily with the entity-types “cell” (“local” processes described with spatial resolution) and “world” (“global” processes described without spatial resolution) and sometimes “social system” (“mesoscopic” processes described at the level of a social system’s territory).