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Sustainable develogment: Applications of systems analysis

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Year
1994

Citation

Shaw, R.W., and Oberg, S., 1994, Sustainable develogment: Applications of systems analysis: The Science of The Total Environment, v. 149, 22 p.

Summary

This paper gives some examples of the application of systems analysis (the examination of the elements and linkages in an interacting group of items forming a unified whole) to the issue of human development and environmental change. The various examples, taken from a report submitted to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), deal with four basic human needs (food, water, energy and waste assimilation) and illustrate that: (1) it is possible to formulate holistic conceptual models of the socio-ecological system in which we live; (2) systems analysis can help us understand the constraints we face in terms of population growth, natural resources, and the assimilative capacity of the environment for wastes; [...]

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Shaw, R.W., Oberg, S.

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