Structure and legal format

A zoöp comes into being when a particular kind of contractual coöperation is formed between two kinds of partners. One kind is that of companies or public institutions (4); the other one is a local zoönomic foundation (3) that is obliged by it statutes, to act solely on behalf of a spatially identified collective body of living non-humans.

In acting out its aims (furthering the local zoönomy) this foundation is assisted by an instrument(5) that assesses and makes legible internally and externally its zoönomic development.

The local zoönomic foundation has a decisive say in the economic activity of the zoöp. The fact that foundations are bound by law to act in accordance to their statutes thereby ensures a basic independence in decision making processes.

Statutes of local zoönomic foundations are always made under supervision of the zoönomic mother board (1). This is the body that collects and shares zoönomic knowledge among zoöps, helps organisations to ‘turn zoöp’ and develops the zoönomic instrument (6). Ideally, a wide range of existing companies should be able to adopt the zoöp format.

Economic and zoönomic exchange

The qualitative state of a zoönomy is fully auditable and numerically governed with the aid of a blockchain that sets conditions for the economic activity of a zoöp - the trading of a zoöps’ yields or services in the money-based economy like fruit, wood, other growths, services or like hotel nights, child care or sports facilities, burial grounds, et cetera. A zoöps’ economic transactions (4) are subject to a specific condition: they can only take place if they do not negatively impact zoönomic conditions. In other words: when money-based transactions threaten to negatively impact the zoönomy, zoönomic interests prevail. Ideally, a zoöps economic activity also benefits its zoönomy.

Zoöps can exchange zoönomically(8) as well, This always implies the transplantation or grafting of a part of the collective body of non-humans of one zoöp to another. These kinds of exchanges may greatly support the zoönomic development of beginning zoöps, without significantly reducing the quality of a fully flowering zoöp.

Next to its qualitative zoönomic development, a zoöp can quantify certain aspects of its zoönomy, for instance: the amount of C02 it sequesters, the amount of water it filters, the amount of air it cleans of dust particles. These ecological services may offer interesting opportunities for financial investment in a zoöp, with beneficial side effects for its zoönomy.