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Public Applications 6) a quick sumary of what changes in the world might be appropriate in
“organizing Statement fron the Chair" response to the model findings.
by Dennis Meadows
Director, Resource Policy Center, 1 honestly do rot know what information will be provided by each speaker
Dartmouth College
under 5 and 6; this ion was, i not included in any
of the reports. I know that nany of my system dynanics nodeling efforts leai te no
1 chose the five papers presented in this panel to fit four criteria:
@iscernable impact on reality as it exists outside the Dartmouth Resource Policy
1) each describes an actual model, not a proposed study,
Center. I expect that at least several of my colleagues on the panel will have
2) each illustrates system dynamics applied with a high degree of
reached the same conclusion for their werk. I intend to conduct the panei, so tr
professicnal acumen,
there is some time left for speakexs and audicnce to explore the implications for
3) together the group encompasses a very diverse range of public
our field of whatever generalizations seem warrented by the data provided wider
issues, and
issues 4 and 5.
4) all of the projects could, in theory, have lead to changes in real
I expect that the ion, “Metanoic iohs," will provide all cf us
and important public policies.
with some to the i Peter Senge and Charley K:
I have the panel to provide a for on
have moved further than anyone else I know in exploring the nature of the structural
the fourth characteristic - implementation of the models‘ results. The final paper
changes required. to increase the magnitude and the quality on organization's response
by Senge and Kiefer was selected, because it provides some special perspectives on
to insights derived from analysis of an organization's systen dynamics.
the processes of achieving implementation.
T have asked each of the five modelers to present the following information
on their model:
1) a brief description of the problem, the project, and its institutional
setting,
2) two reference mode diagrams that illustrate alternative future possibilities
for the evolution of important variables in the system they have studied,
3) a causal loop diagram indicating two or three of the cardinal feedback
loops in their nicdel,
4) a summary of the principal policy recommendations that emerged from their
study of the model,
5) a irief description of how the real world is different today than it would
have been in the absence of their modeling effort, and
sce ott
