Acharya, Surya Raj with Khalid Saeed, "A Search for an Operational Environmental Policy Based on the "Limits to Growth" Study", 1995
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Experimenting further with the World3 model, this paper attempts to formulate the operational means to implement the critical recommendations of the "Limits to Growth" study. Using feedback as the organizing principle and the work of Daly (1991), Page (1997) and Saeed (1985) as guidelines, additional policy space was built into the model for self-regulating its critical policy parameters. The policies so created not only appeared to lie within the scope of the existing and potentially feasible regulatory institutions, they were insensitive to their receptive behavioral parameters and also the timing to intervention. The operational policy design procedures adopted in the paper is also seen to create an important heuristic for policy design in general, which should strive to create operational rather than power-cased intervention.