
Exercises for Modeling the Environment
Part 1. Introductory Modeling (extra exercises)
Chapter 1. Introduction (none)
Chapter 2. Software, Getting Started with Stella and Vensim (none)
Chapter 3. Stocks and Flows
Chapter 4. Accumulating the Flows
Chapter 5. Water Flows in the Mono Basin
Chapter 6. Equilibrium Diagrams
Chapter 7. S-Shaped Growth
Chapter 8. Epidemic Dynamics
Chapter 9. Information Feedback and Causal
Loop Diagrams
Chapter 10. Homeostasis (none)
Chapter 11. Temperature Control on Daisyworld
Chapter 12. Hitting the Bulls Eye (none)
Part 2. Intermediate Modeling (extra exercises)
Chapter 13. The Modeling Process (none)
Chapter 14. Software: Further Progress
with Stella and Vensim
Chapter 15. The Salmon in the Pacific
Northwest
Chapter 16. Managing a Feebate Program (none)
Chapter 17. Modeling Pitfalls (none)
Chapter 18. Inroduction to Cyclical Behavior
Chapter 19. Cycles in Real-Estate Construction
Chapter 20. Cycles in Predator and Prey
Populations
Chapter 21. The Overshoot of the Kaibab Deer Population (none)
Chapter 22. DDT in the Ocean
(end of DDT chapter in 1st edition)
Chapter 23. CO2 in the Atmosphere (none)
Chapter 24. Concluding Perspective (none)
Additional Exercise Collections
Agriculture: Pigs for the Ancestors, Pigs
for the Market
-Anthropological Model -- Slash
and Burn Gardening by the Tsembaga (Pigs for the Ancestors)
-The Hog Cycle -- Cyclical
Behavior in the US Hog Market
Genetics -- Industrial Melanism (Black
and White Moths)
Individual Based Modeling -- Let's Go for
a Hike
Limnology: Accelerated Eutrophication in a Lake with N and P Limitations
--Model Description and Verification
Exercises
----- Vensim model of the lake
----- Notes
on the Stella model of the lake
----- Stella model of the lake
--Causal Loop Diagram
Exercises
--Model Expansion
to Include Dissolved Oxygen
Physics -- Warming of Water in a Glass
Physiology -- Body Temperature Control
with Shivering
Population Ecology
-- Model of a Field Grasshopper Population
-- Model of the Ragwort Plant and Its Seeds
Resource Economics
-- The Discovery and Production of Natural Gas
The Limits to Growth -- the most widely
read application of system dynamics
Wildlife Management -- Deer Population
Control with Bucks-Only Hunting
Water Resource Management -- link to The
Idagon Website