Tools for Understanding the Limits to Growth: Comparing a Simulation and a Game

Dennis L. Meadows
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Dennis L. Meadows: University of New Hampshire

Simulation & Gaming, 2001, vol. 32, issue 4, 522-536

Abstract: During 30 years as a systems analyst and teacher, this author has been constructing models to understand and convey key principles related to the long-term causes and consequences of physical growth on the planet. In this article, he describes two different models that he has developed to accomplish these goals. One was employed as a computer simulation; the other functioned as an operational game. In comparing them, the author points out many differences between the two tools and indicates two important challenges for this profession.

Keywords: Club of Rome; collapse; exponential growth; gaming; global models; limits to growth; overshoot; simulation; system dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/104687810103200408

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