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Uncertainty.
Issues addressed.
Relationship with Other Components.
Further reading.
'system dynamics': an approach to modelling systems thinking that can reveal system behaviour.
multiple consequences, side-effects
Limits to extrapolation: changed system (overpopulation)
Chaos (complexity qv): System Dynamics: 'emergent behaviour' may be a useful simplifying tool so we can see the forest from the trees (avoid noise).
The axes in system-dynamics diagrams don't mean anything, whereas the past-now-future diagram at least has a time axis. Maybe what we need is a higher-dimensional system-dynamics diagram that has meaningful axes; eg, representing time and space (in additional to linkage between effects). There may be more dimensions too: probability? consequences? alternative decisions? Maybe we need a series of different views of the same model (inspired by MVM, UML).