The focus in this case on the political choice of an alternative to prevent the boom-and-bust behavior in North sawmill wood. Simulation analysis is also available for teachers to use to demonstrate the results of various policy alternatives. Landowners, sawmill owners, government officials, and environmentalists do not want to saw-demand "release" the productive capacity of forest resources, the problem is that the region has experienced about a century earlier. Students use the system, thinking skills (analysis of modes of behavior, cause-and-loop display and stock flow mapping) to create the basic conditions of their random-structure systems. The case is based on the "Total stability in systems of the commodity market," System Dynamics Review of summer 2002. "Hide
by Robert D. Landel, Andrew Jones Source: Darden School of Business 3 pages. Publication Date: November 30, 2004. Prod . #: UV3546-PDF-ENG
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