Barton, Patrick with Mike Bull, "Planning Conservation Programs Decision Support with the Conservation Policy Analysis Model", 1986
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System Dynamics has proven to be a useful paradigm for the construction of a policy analysis model in support of energy conservation decisions in the United States Pacific Northwest. This paper outlines the most important complexities faced by the Bonneville Power Administration planners, how system dynamics has provided a framework for analysis and how the integrated model currently used by staff members (the Conservation Policy Analysis Model) has been applied successfully to a wide range of problems.