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Evolutionary dynamics and sustainable development : a systems approach
- Title
- Evolutionary dynamics and sustainable development : a systems approach / Norman Clark, Francisco Perez-Trejo, Peter Allen.
- Author
- Clark, Norman.
- Publication
- Aldershot, UK ; Brookfield, US : Edward Elgar, [1995], ©1995.
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- Description
- xviii, 175 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- The strategic management of socio-economic systems is becoming increasingly difficult to manage with traditional economic models which are unable to handle environmental and technological factors.
- In Evolutionary Dynamics and Sustainable Development Norman Clark, Francisco Perez-Trejo and Peter Allen offer a new approach which emphasises the evolutionary nature of socio-economic systems. Their discussion includes the use of decision tools which can simultaneously handle spatial and temporal evolution.
- This major book begins with a critical evaluation of conventional economic approaches to development planning and then explores how modern general systems theory can show economic development as a process of structural change. The authors then develop a model which they explore through case studies of both Senegal and Crete.
- The model is combined with risk analysis to show how it can be used in computer-based scenarios, before its properties as an aid to decision making are summarised in the last chapter. Defining development as a process of structural change in economic systems rather than in terms of economic output, this volume will be welcomed for its advocacy of non-linear models as decision tools and for its special reference to issues of economic development and environmental stability in Third World countries.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-166) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Modelling Sustainable Development -- 2. The Nature of Systems -- 3. Economic Systems -- 4. Spatial Modelling -- 5. The Model as a Decision Tool (A Crete Case Study) -- 6. An Agenda for the Future -- Appendix I An Exploration of Complex Economic Systems Modelling for Strategic Planning -- Appendix II VENSIM: A Modelling Environment.
- ISBN
- 1858982731
- LCCN
- 95013219
- OCLC
- 32274626
- ocm32274626
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries