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As initially proposed by Pr. William M White of Cornell University:

http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/education/course/descr/EAS302/302_06Lab11.pdf
http://www.eas.cornell.edu/
Global Carbon Cycle - For ENVS 270
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HANDY Model of Societal Collapse from Ecological Economics Paper 
see also D Cunha's model at IM-15085 (Spanish)
Human and Nature Dynamics of Societal Inequality
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Combining electromobility and renewable energies since 2014.

http://www.amsterdamvehicle2grid.nl/

Clone of Amsterdam V2G simulation 2.0
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Interplay between wolves eating sheep and farmers killing wolves.

Simple Sheep and Wolves
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Simple mass balance model for lakes based on the Vollenweider equation:

dMw/dt = Min - sMw + pMs - Mout

The model was first used in the 1960s to determine the phosphorus concentration in lakes and reservoirs for eutrophication assessment.

This version considers mercury, and adds diagenesis, using an extra state variable (mercury in the sediment), and incorporates desorption processes that release mercury trapped in the sediment back to the water column.

The temporal dynamics of the model simulate the typical development of pollution in time.

1. Low loading, low Hg concentration in lake
2. High loading, increasing Hg concentration in lake
3. Desorption rate is low, Hg in sediment increases
4. Measures implemented for source control, loading reduces
5. Hg in lake gradually decreases, but below a certain point, desorption increases, and lake Hg concentration does not improve
6. Recovery only occurs when the secondary load in the sediment is strongly reduced.
Clone of Mercury pollution model with diagenesis
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Term Project - Enigma, Human Population Spring '22
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This model simulates the growth of carp in an aquaculture pond, both with respect to production and environmental effects.

Both the anabolism and fasting catabolism functions contain elements of allometry, through the m and n exponents that reduce the ration per unit body weight as the animal grows bigger.

The 'S' term provides a growth adjustment with respect to the number of fish, so implicitly adds competition (for food, oxygen, space, etc).

 Carp are mainly cultivated in Asia and Europe, and contribute to the world food supply.

Aquaculture currently produces sixty million tonnes of fish and shellfish every year. In May 2013, aquaculture production overtook wild fisheries for human consumption.

This paradigm shift last occurred in the Neolithic period, ten thousand years ago, when agriculture displaced hunter-gatherers as a source of human food.

Aquaculture is here to stay, and wild fish capture (fishing) will never again exceed cultivation.

Recreational fishing will remain a human activity, just as hunting still is, after ten thousand years - but it won't be a major source of food from the seas.

The best way to preserve wild fish is not to fish them.
CARP - Carp AquacultuRe in Ponds
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In Chile, 60% of its population are exposed to levels of Particulate Matter (PM) above international standards. Air Pollution is causing 4,000 premature deaths per year, including health costs over US$8 billion.

The System Dynamics Causal Loop Diagram developed herein shows an initial study of the dynamics among the variables that influences the accumulation of PM in the air, in particular the case of Temuco, in the South of Chile. In Temuco, 97% of the PM inventories comes from the combustion of low quality firewood, which in turns is being burned due to its low price and cultural habits/tradition.
Clone of Air Pollution Dynamics - Firewood Combustion
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The time-variable solution to a step-function change in inflow concentration for an ideal, completely mixed lake.
Clone of ENVE 431 - HW5 - PROBLEM 7
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Economic growth cannot go on forever, although politicians and most economist seem to think so. The activity involved in economic growth necessarily  generates entropy (disorder and environmental degradation). Entorpy in turn generates powerful negative feedback loops which will, as a response from nature, ensure that economic activity will eventually grind to a complete halt.  In these circumstances organised society cannot persist and will collapse. The negative feedback loops shown in this graph have already started to operate. The longer economic growth continues unabated, the more powerful these negative feedback loops will become. How long can economic growth continue before it is overwhelmed? It may not be very far in the future.

Entropy and Negative Feedback may stop Growth soon
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Global Warming
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Simple model to illustrate oyster growth based on primary production of Phytoplankton as a state variable, forced by light and nutrients, running for a yearly period.

Phytoplankton growth based on on Steele's and Michaelis-Menten equations), where: 

Primary Production=(([Pmax]*[I]/[Iopt]*exp(1-[I]/[Iopt])*[S])/([Ks]+[S]))

Pmax: Maximum production (d-1)
I: Light energy at depth of interest (uE m-2 s-1)
Iopt: Light energy at which Pmax occurs (uE m-2 s-1)
S: Nutrient concentration (umol N L-1)
Ks: Half saturation constant for nutrient (umol N L-1).

Further developments:
- Nutrients as state variable in cycle with detritus from phytoplankton and oyster biomass.
- Light limited by the concentration of phytoplankton.
- Temperature effect on phytoplankton and Oyster growth.


Oyster Growth based on Phytoplankton Biomass
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Simple (Kind of) food web of the Cane Toad Species. Includes different levels of consumers including predators.
Clone of Cane Toad Food Web
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Sagebrush Ecosystem- Cheatgrass Management
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Interplay between wolves eating sheep and farmers killing wolves.

Sheep and Wolves
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This diagram provides an accessible description of the key processes that influence the water quality within a lake.
Clone of Conceptual model of a lake
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Fluxograma da produção de biodiesel a partir de microalgas
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In Chile, 60% of its population are exposed to levels of Particulate Matter (PM) above international standards. Air Pollution is causing 4,000 premature deaths per year, including health costs over US$8 billion.

The System Dynamics Causal Loop Diagram developed herein shows an initial study of the dynamics among the variables that influences the accumulation of PM in the air, in particular the case of Temuco, in the South of Chile. In Temuco, 97% of the PM inventories comes from the combustion of low quality firewood, which in turns is being burned due to its low price and cultural habits/tradition.
Clone of Air Pollution Dynamics - Firewood Combustion
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The time-variable solution to a step-function change in inflow concentration for an ideal, completely mixed lake.
Clone of ENVE 431 - HW5 - PROBLEM 7
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Primitives for Watershed modeling project. Click Clone Insight at the top right to make a copy that you can edit.

The converter in this file contains precipitation for Phoenix only.


Group8 - Rainwater Harvesting -Phoenix ENVS 270 - Turi
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Simple Model of the Food Chain
Clone of Food Chain
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This model illustrates predator prey interactions using real-life data of wolf and moose populations on the Isle Royale.


From 'Rethinking Thinking' - Interacting Feedback Loops : Predator Prey Interactions
28 4 months ago
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Harvested fishery with endogenous investment and ship deployment policy. Ch 9 p345-360 John Morecroft (2007) Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics

Clone of Fishery Dynamics with Ship Deployment POlicy
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Interplay between wolves eating sheep and farmers killing wolves.

Simple Sheep, Wolves and Deer