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Evolutionary dynamics and sustainable development : a systems approach / Norman Clark (Director, Graduate School of Envrionmental Studies, University of Strathclyde, UK) and Francisco Perez-Trejo (WAICENT Manager, Rome, Italy) and Peter Allen (School of Management, Cranfield University, UK)
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995Description: 1 Online-Ressource (196 pages) : illustrations, mapsISBN:- 9781035334605
- 333.7 20
- HC79.E5
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Summary: The strategic management of socio-economic systems is becoming increasingly difficult 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 emphasizes the evolutionary nature of socio-economic systems. 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 discussion includes the use of decision tools which can simultaneously handle spatial and temporal evolution. The authors 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 summarized 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 countriesPPN: PPN: 1922107921Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE | ZDB-77-EEC | ZDB-77-ECE
Contents: Preface -- 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 references -- Index.
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