Antunes, Paula with António Camara, "A New Approach to Environmental Impact Assessment", 1986
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A new approach to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), based on system dynamics concepts is presented in this paper. System dynamics models will however be useful in EIA only if people are able to develop"good" models. The conceptual basis for building an expert system designed to guide people in developing system dynamics models is introduced in this work. Such an expert system will have two main modules: a system dynamics component, which will include basic system dynamics concepts and heuristics; and a specific application component, which will consist of the main relations and rules governing a givenenvironmental area. The system will also include an interface with a dynamic simulation language and with a decision aiding formulation.