ON LACK OF INTERDEPENDENCY BETWEEN THE ABIOTIC AND ANTROPEIC FACTORS

The concept currently dominating in ecology is that of limiting factors (Odum, 1971), the factors being divided into three groups, namely, abiotic, biotic and antropeic factors. Recently attempts have been made to establish an immanent interrelationship between abiotic factors and socio-political problems. For example, it is argued that in countries exposed to Water Scarcity Impact (WSI), there immanently emerge causes for socio-political conflicts (Haddadin, 2001). However, as far back as a century and a half ago, Ch. Montesquieu (On the Spirit of Laws, 1747) showed that political system of a society may have a regulating impact on natural, more precisely climatic, factors. We have shown in the present paper that some political regimes (absolutist monarchies in the times of Montesquieu and authoritarian regimes in our times) that enjoy complete impunity may even amplify the negative impact of natural phenomena. In contrast, developed civil societies have an opportunity of damping negative natural factors, in particular, WSI (Manusova et al.; Nudelman, Manusov, 2001). The paper refutes the erroneous hypothesis claming the existence of an immanent interrelationship between Political Conflicts, even when the latter is combined with Underground Allocations of Water Resources (UAWR).