How small system dynamics models can help the public policy process

System Dynamics Review

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-44

  Ghaffarzadegan, Navid ^a   Lyneis, John ^b   Richardson, George P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELING; POLICY MAKING; URBAN PLANNING; WELFARE PROVISION;

EID: 79951991184     PISSN: 08837066     EISSN: 10991727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sdr.442     Document Type: Article

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