Introduction to Collaborative Conceptual Modelling

Abstract

Rising populations, consumerism, urbanism, and globalisation are leading to more extensive and tighter feedback connections within the human-Earth system, making it more and more difficult to understand its dynamics and anticipate its response to management actions. The point has now been reached where it is necessary to take a dynamical systems approach in attempts to develop adaptive strategies that can bring human activities into harmony with planetary processesThis item was commisioned by AN