Boundary matters: the potential of system dynamics to support sustainability?

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 140, Issue , 2017, Pages 312-323

  Nabavi, Ehsan ^a   Daniell, Katherine A ^a   Najafi, Husain ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Boundary judgements; Modelling; Politics; Sustainability; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BOUNDARY JUDGEMENTS; OPTIMIZATION PACKAGES; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLITICS; QUANTITATIVE SIMULATION; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

SYSTEM THEORY;

EID: 84965013739     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.032     Document Type: Article

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