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A Systems Approach To Ecological Economic Models Developed Progressively In Three Interwoven Articles, Takuro Uehara
A Systems Approach To Ecological Economic Models Developed Progressively In Three Interwoven Articles, Takuro Uehara
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My dissertation develops and analyzes ecological economic models to study the complex dynamics of an ecological economic system (EES) and investigate various conditions and measures which can sustain a developing economy over the long term in view of resilience and sustainability. Because of the intrinsic complexity of the system, I take a systems approach, using economics as the foundation for the basic structure of an ecological economic model, and system dynamics as the method to build and analyze such a complex ecological economic model. Throughout my dissertation, the model developed by Brander and Taylor (1998) is adopted as a baseline …