REPLY Climate change (SD6235)

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Posted by  John Sterman <jsterman at MIT.EDU>

For SD approaches to climate change, see the work of Tom Fiddaman,  including

Fiddaman, T.  Exploring policy options with a behavioral climate- 
economy model
System Dynamics Review
Volume 18, Issue 2, Date: Summer 2002, Pages: 243-267

Tom won the 2006 Forrester award for this work.  See also his  website, 
http://www.metasd.com/index.html.

Linda Booth Sweeney and I have also done work on understanding the  
source of pubic complacency about climate change.  See 
http:// web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/Understanding_public.html where you can  
download our most recent paper on the topic (Sterman, J. and L. Booth  
Sweeney (2007). "Understanding Public Complacency About Climate  
Change:  Adults' Mental Models of Climate Change Violate Conservation  
of Matter." Climatic Change 80(3-4): 213-238.).

At that same site you can play with an online simulator to learn how  
greenhouse gas emissions would have to change to stabilize  
atmospheric GHG concentrations.

See also Sterman, J. D. and L. Booth Sweeney (2002). "Cloudy Skies:   
Assessing Public Understanding of Global Warming." System Dynamics  
Review 18(2): 207-240, which was recently republished (in edited  
form) in Reflections, the journal of the Society for Organizational  
Learning.

John Sterman 
Posted by  John Sterman <jsterman at MIT.EDU>
posting date  Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:04:33 -0500