REPLY European 'Global System Dynamics Project' (SD7161)

[SDMAIL Jim Thompson]

Posted by  "Jim Thompson" <james.thompson at strath.ac.uk>

Kim Warren asks, "How is it possible that such an important
initiative could be started with apparently no knowledge or
involvement from the top people in our community who have worked
on this for decades?!", says more than it asks.

Environmental science, climatology, population studies,
atmospheric sciences and associated fields already use 'dynamic
systems' logic. From a gloss of the literature in those fields,
the rigour applied and techniques developed appear to be at least
equal to the work of "our community". 

Perhaps we should ask why those who choose to not join "our
community" exclude themselves.

Jim Thompson
Posted by  "Jim Thompson" <james.thompson at strath.ac.uk>
posting date  Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:57:45 -0400