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The limits to growth structure is based on the basic growth structure. And, as should be obvious, nothing grows forever as growth requires resources. Those required resources become a limits to growth. See also Archetypes.

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Limits to Growth
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Ce modèle simule la dynamique d'une population dont la croissance est limitée par son environnement, un cas d'étude inspiré par la gestion des stocks de légine australe dans l'océan Austral.

Contrairement au modèle de croissance exponentielle (conditions idéales), la croissance de la légine n'est pas infinie. Les ressources (nourriture, espace) sont limitées et la compétition augmente avec la population. Ce phénomène, appelé densité-dépendance, crée une auto-régulation qui freine la croissance et la fait tendre vers une limite : la capacité de charge (K). De plus, cette population est soumise à une pression extérieure : la pêche.

Les Composants du Modèle :

  • Variable d'état : L'Effectif du stock (N) de légines, qui est au cœur du système.

  • Paramètres Fondamentaux : Les caractéristiques biologiques de la légine et de son milieu déterminent les paramètres de sa croissance. Vous pouvez régler ces paramètres avec les curseurs :

    • bmax et dmin : Les taux de natalité et de mortalité optimaux, quand la densité est faible.

    • ddb et ddd : L'intensité de la compétition. Ils mesurent à quel point la reproduction ralentit et la mortalité augmente quand la population devient trop dense.

  • Flux :

    • Les flux de Naissances (B) et de Morts (D) ne sont plus simplement proportionnels à N, mais sont maintenant régulés par la densité.

    • Un nouveau flux de sortie contrôlé par l'homme est ajouté : la Pêche (Fisheries).

  • Indicateurs : Le modèle calcule des propriétés "émergentes" cruciales pour les gestionnaires, comme le taux de croissance maximal (rmax) et la Capacité de Charge (K) de l'écosystème.

Votre Mission d'Exploration : Votre objectif est de devenir un gestionnaire de pêcherie durable !

  1. Commencez avec une pêche nulle (Fisheries = 0) pour observer la courbe de croissance logistique naturelle de la légine et identifier sa capacité de charge K.

  2. Introduisez ensuite un effort de pêche modéré. Quel est son impact sur la taille de la population à l'équilibre ?

  3. Explorez différentes intensités de pêche pour trouver le Rendement Maximal Soutenable (RMS) : la plus grande quantité de poissons que vous pouvez pêcher chaque année sans provoquer l'effondrement du stock. Cliquez sur "SIMULATE" et gérez votre ressource !

Modèle BIDE Taux Densité-Dépendants
11 last month
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A growing grid can only build what its permitting system lets through each year. This model asks what that does to prices and to fossil fuel generation when you speed the process up, leave it slow, use it to block gas plants, or wait for a better deal.

How it works. Two stocks, clean capacity and the fossil fleet, in average gigawatts delivered. Demand compounds. Each year the grid wants to build for demand growth, replace retiring plants and keep a 15 percent reserve margin, but it can only build what the rules allow (a pace that scales with the grid), and about 80 percent of what gets built is clean. Fossil plants supply whatever clean power can't, so the fossil power needed (our emissions proxy) is demand minus clean output. When the grid runs short, prices rise and old plants that were due to close stay open.

What it shows.

  1. Blocking a gas plant only cuts fossil power if something clean gets built in its place. Otherwise it changes nothing except the reserve margin: higher prices, older plants.
  2. Build pace matters until it covers demand growth plus retirements, about 19 GW a year here. Past that, extra pace buys nothing.
  3. A gas ban is a price policy. Across every setting we tried it raises prices by 2 to 20 percent. For emissions it does nothing while the bottleneck binds and gains a few percent once the bottleneck is cleared, because a slightly short grid keeps building clean. What costs emissions is delay.
  4. Holding the bill hostage to get the ban is a bad bet. If you win, emissions end 1 to 3 percent lower than the deal and prices 4 percent higher. If you lose, you get no reform: 11 percent more fossil power and 9 percent higher prices. On emissions alone you need to be 80 to 90 percent sure of winning to break even, and prices lose in every branch. The ban's value comes from a cleared bottleneck, so if you want it, pass the bill first and fight for the ban after.

Premises and limits. The model assumes the bottleneck binds today, which five-year queues, tightening margins and deferred coal retirements suggest. Capacity is in effective gigawatts, so the reserve margin is a stylized slack index, not NERC's number. Demand doesn't respond to price. Coal and gas are lumped together, which understates the climate cost of keeping old coal open. Numbers are stylized, roughly the US in 2026. Rhodium's full energy-system model of the bill finds prices 3 to 5 percent lower and power emissions up to 18 percent lower by 2040; this toy lands at 7 and about 20 percent by 2046, for a bill that lifts the pace to 18 to 20.

Built by Second Order Lab around Datta and Amarnath's "Energy isn't just about climate change" (The Argument, Nov 6, 2026).

Blocking vs. Building: a growing grid behind a permitting bottleneck
22 hours ago
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¿Qué variables son densodependientes?
¿Qué le pasa a la K?
¿Qué tipo de estocasticidad está considerando?

¿Calcula la MVP?
Vamos a definir MVP: tamaño poblacional que asegura que la población persista un 95 % de las veces
Estima de la población mínima viable (MVP)
9 2 weeks ago
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Simulates Ag biogeochemical cycling using data from Rauch and Pacyna (2009). This Insight forms part of the engaged lear​ning exercise for a SESYNC case study about the human relationship with silver as a natural resource throughout history.
Silver Biogeochemical Cycling v2
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Adapted from Fig 13.1 p.523 of the Book: James A. Forte ( 2007), Human Behavior and The Social Environment: Models, Metaphors and Maps for Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Practice  Thomson Brooks/Cole Belmont ISBN 0-495-00659-9

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