The objective of this paper is eminently theoretical and aims to shed light on the
way how the global market is dominated by antagonistic forces or actors (multinational
corporations, ecological movements, national or supra-national governments) that create
instability and chaotic fluctuations in natural resource and commodity markets with
unpredictable impacts on the landscape-cultural mosaic. There is a contrast between the
speed of financial actions, that operate with extremely fast times and repercussions, and the
speed of ecological actions whose impact, especially on the landscape, is rather slow. The
role of governments ends up following now one and now the other instance creating an
additional factor of instability. Consequently, the effectiveness of the activities of the three
actors overlaps, with different times, creating a system that even in the simplest cases has
proven to lead to chaotic situations. The methodological reference will be to the Lotka-
Volterra model which, as is well known, in the case of 2 actors leads to a situation of
equilibrium, whereas when the actors are three or more gives rise to large ranges of
deterministic chaos as supported also by Game theory.
