Modeling Methodology For Sustainable Development

This is a monograph on modeling methodology models focused on policies for sustainable development. Sustainable policies are important because the patterns of the historical development of the world s industrial, commercial, and economic systems of contemporary society are not projectable simply not viable over the future. We examine a new concept of societal models, called model ontology . We will see how this can be used to construct information architectures for information systems centered upon specific policy issues. An information-system approach based upon societal modeling is the way models can be useful and important to policy making

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The author has a PhD in physics but changed fields to operations research. He has taught in business schools and also was a program officer in the U.S. National Science Foundation. His other recent books in print include: Managing Technology; Managing Science; Societal Dynamics; Why Bank Panics Matter; Innovation and Global Competition.

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This is a monograph on modeling methodology - models focused on policies for sustainable development. Sustainable policies are important because the patterns of the historical development of the world's industrial, commercial, and economic systems of contemporary society are 'not projectable' - simply not viable over the future. We examine a new concept of societal models, called 'model ontology'. We will see how this can be used to construct 'information architectures' for information systems centered upon specific policy issues. An information-system approach based upon societal modeling is the way models can be useful and important to policy making