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Energy-Economic Modeling Info/Funding Flows

Katie Mulvaney

Final Project Socio-Economic Model

Max Douglas

WIP based on Emery Roe's 2013 book. See also Dynamics in Action IM-3239 for more on behavior and The Art of the State IM-11962 for more on Grid-Group Cultural Theory

Managing Mess

Geoff McDonnell

4 9 months ago

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NIKE POWER ANALYSIS

Emma Yudelevitch

Goodwin cycle IM-2010 with debt and taxes added, modified from Steve Keen's illustration of Hyman Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis "stability begets instability". This can be extended by adding the Ponzi effect of borrowing for speculative investment.

Minsky Financial Instability Model

Geoff McDonnell

27

• This model examines how sustainable consumerism is from social, economic, and environmental aspects. The question in focus is "How will our second-hand clothing donations affect communities in developing countries, specifically Kenya?"

5 Stock Variables:

• U.S. Consumers

• Multinational Corporations

• Overseas Factories

• Kenya

Highlight Findings:

To sum up, there are 4 major problems associated to donations:

• 1. Source of problem is the consumer: Cheap deals attract hundreds of millions in revenue for fast fashion, and contribute to 100,000 tonnes of clothing to Kenya annually.

• 2. Rapid consumerism leads to over-utilization of slowly-renewable resources, such as water.

• 3. Nearly 96% of textiles jobs are eradicated by the massive inflow of clothing donations to Kenya.

• 4. The offshoring of textiles jobs enrages U.S. blue-collar workers, leading to the rise of protectionism.

Clone of Environmental, social, and economic sustainability aspects of textiles donations

ComPAIR Research

BAM economic model

Marek Kalnik

WIP Book summary of Frank Stilwell's 2019 Book, The Political Economy of Inequality, Polity Press podcast and slides

Political Economy of Inequality

Geoff McDonnell

integratrated solar energy economics for northeast brazil depend consultant engs

Solar Energy - Efficiency economic s

Pagandai V Pannir Selvam

WIP Summary of MIchael Hudson's Book Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt destroy the Global Economy

Killing the Host

Geoff McDonnell

4

Brainstorming - Scoping constraints of tradeoff microanalysis

Laura Anne Geronimo

Model 2

Laura Anne Geronimo

This is a high-level causal loop diagram mapping the impacts of a power outage on FEMA lifelines and associated services, and the resulting potential feedbacks and impacts to human behavior and various dimensions of wellbeing.

A lifeline enables the continuous operation of critical government and business functions and is essential to human health and safety or economic security.

Lifelines are the most fundamental services in the community that, when stabilized, enable all other aspects of society to function.
FEMA has developed a construct for objectives-based response that prioritizes the rapid stabilization of Community Lifelines after a disaster.
The integrated network of assets, services, and capabilities that provide lifeline services are used day-to-day to support the recurring needs of the community and enable all other aspects of society to function.
When disrupted, decisive intervention (e.g., rapid re-establishment or employment of contingency response solutions) is required to stabilize the incident.

Context-dependent characteristics of hazards, households, and infrastructures influencing vulnerability are represented as variables. Variables are constant or dynamically calculated values that can be used to synthesize data, calibrate models, and/or create forcing functions based on the current time.

Lifeline services are represented as converters, which can be used to represent input-output relationships or graphs.

Multiple forms of capital (e.g., human, natural, social, manufactured) are represented as stocks. Stocks are flexible "buckets" into which something can be accumulated or withdrawn from.

Human Dimensions of Energy Systems

Laura Supple

yesterday

The model is unrealistic since it has no measurable values but help in visualizing the complexity of the relationship between ecology and socio-economic. The simulation model has a variety of factors that need to be considered, and the factors emulate hypothetical actions that game park managers need to consider so as to include the complexity of biodiversity in the decision-making process

A model of the complex relationship between variables

Shoeb Hussain

Childhood Obesity, Reception Age, Early Years Intervention

Childhood Obesity

Gbenga Olatunde

Circular equations WIP for Runy.

Added several versions of the model. Added a flow to make C increase. Added a factor to be able to change the value 0.5. Older version cloned at IM-46280

Clone of Circularity in Economic models

Runy Calmera

The problem being examined is the issue of access to quality education being provided to all students irrespective of economic, geographical, social, racial, gender or religious issues. We are looking at the many factors impacting on access to quality education.

Excellent Schools Causal Loop2

Nicola Eccleston

Extremely basic stock-flow diagram of compound interest with table and graph output in interest and savings development per year. Initial deposit, interest rate, yearly deposit and withdrawal can all be modified in Dutch.

Stock-Flow diagram of savings account - compound interest

Henny van Dongen

Model of Covid-19 outbreak in Burnie, Tasmania

Balancing Health and Economy factor

Vaccination rate will help to recovered more people and decrease the immunity loss rate.

Additionally. The lack of food during the covid-19 pandemic still an obstacle for economic development.

In someway, Health balancing in every people will help to shut down covid-19 and help economic development even grow up faster.

Model of Covid-19 outbreak in Burnie, Tasmania

KV

Ocean Acidification - Gulf of Mexico

Steven Ruoff

Overview of Part E Ch 20 to 24 of Mitchell Wray and Watts Textbook see IM-164967 for book overview

Economic policy in an open economy

Geoff McDonnell

8

Michael Green's social progress index TED talk makes it very fun to try out causal loop diagramming in Insight Maker

IPA analysis of social progress index talk from TED

Christina Bowen

Description

The model shows Covid-19 situations in Burnie, Tasmania. Under such circumstances, how the state government deals with the pandemic and how economy changes will be illustrated. The relationship between government policy and economic activities under Covid-19 outbreaks will be explained through different variables.

Assumptions

Government policy negatively affects Covid-19 outbreaks and economic activities.

Covid-19 outbreaks also has negative effects on economic growth.

Parameters

There are several fixed and adjusted variables.

1. COVID-19 Outbreaks

Fixed variables: infection rate, recovery rate

Adjusted variables: immunity loss rate

2. Government Policy

Adjusted variables: lockdown, social distancing, testing, vaccination

3. Economic impact

Fixed variables: tourism

Adjusted variables: economic growth rate

Interesting Insights

Tourism seems to be the most effective way to bring back economic growth in Tasmania, and it takes time to recover from Covid-19.

Government policies tend to have negative influences on economic growth.

BMA708 Assignment 3_Yu Wang_595070

Yu Wang

An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.

Yuzuki Aizawa 10.3 this one Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02

Yuzuki Aizawa