..., this is better represented by general ecosystems. For Stanley and Briscoe (2010) , agency ecology is a self-organising community of interacting agents, its population comprising different species each with their individual properties and specialisms. This self-organising property arises through emergence...

... will be followed by a separate Part 2 paper that will propose a generic ecosystem framework for socioeconomic systems using agency theory, and this will recognise the analytical and decision-making attributes of the ecosystem sustainability. Explanation will also occur of the needs for a generic ecosystem theory...