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Natural Resource Management: Contributions of System Dynamics to Research, Policy and Implementation
Author(s) -
Lane David C.,
Kopainsky Birgit
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.2461
Subject(s) - reading (process) , citation , library science , dynamics (music) , resource (disambiguation) , computer science , sociology , operations research , media studies , political science , engineering , law , pedagogy , computer network
This special issue contains a series of papers in the area of System Dynamics modelling (Forrester, 1961; 1968). Perhaps System Dynamics – SD has not always been at the centre of ‘Systems Science’ in institutional terms. It is also distinctive in terms of some of its ideas: employing the framework of Richardson (1991), SD grew out of a ‘servo-mechanisms thread’ of feedback thinking, in contrast to the ‘cybernetics thread’ from which rather more systems approaches developed. However, looking more broadly one can see that SD is firmly grounded in the notion that holistic thinking provides a better way of understanding the world and of crafting effective interventions. The project to draw SD into the family of systems approaches is now well into its third decade and has involved connections being made from outside SD by mainstream system scientists (e.g. Bloomfield, 1982; Jackson & Keys, 1984; Keys, 1988) and from within SD itself (Richardson, 1991; Lane, 1994) to the point that SD is frequently treated as selfevidently being a member of the range of systems approaches (e.g. Jackson, 2003). An indicator of this is this journal’s interest in the subject generally: SD is one of the journal’s designated systems fields and therefore has its own editor and the number of SD submissions and publications continues to rise. Further evidence of SD’s embrace by Systems Science is this journal’s support for the ‘European System Dynamics Workshop’ (EuSDW) series, bi-