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Journal Articles
Understanding Diabetes Population Dynamics Through Simulation Modeling and Experimentation, Andrew P. Jones MS, Jack B. Homer PhD, Dara L. Murphy MPH, Joyce D.K. Essien MD MBA, Bobby Milstein MPH and Donald A. Seville MS, March 2006, Vol 96, No. 3, American Journal of Public Health 488-494: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.063529. Available here.
Charting plausible futures for diabetes prevalence in the United States: a role for system dynamics simulation modeling. Milstein B, Jones A, Homer JB, Murphy D, Essien J, Seville D. Preventing Chronic Disease. July 2007. Available as html.
Resource Sustainability In Commodity Systems: The Sawmill Industry In The Northern Forest (208KB pdf), by Andrew Jones, Don Seville, and Donella Meadows
Papers
Diabetes
The CDC's Diabetes Systems Modeling Project: Developing a new tool for chronic disease prevention and control (240KB pdf), by J Homer, A Jones, D Seville, J Essien, B Milstein, and D Murphy (2004). Overview of model findings and background on the model-building process.
Diabetes Systems Model Reference Guide (158KB pdf), Homer, Jones and Seville (2004). Overview of model structure and assumptions.
System Dynamics and Systems Thinking Tools
Systems Thinking for Sustainability: A Decision-Support Approach for Electrical Utility Executives Addressing Climate Change (416KB pdf), by Andrew Jones (2005)
Action-to-Outcome Mapping: testing strategy with systems thinking (69KB pdf), by Andrew Jones and Don Seville, Systems Thinker Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2003.
Acting on Interdependence (69KB pdf), Systems Thinker Vol 18, No. 9, December 2007
Climate Change
Current Emissions Reductions Proposals In The Lead-Up To Cop-15 Are Likely To Be Insufficient To Stabilize Atmospheric CO2 Levels: Using C-ROADS - A Simple Computer Simulation Of Climate Change - To Support Long-Term Climate Policy Development. (635KB pdf) Sawin, Jones, Fiddaman, Siegel, Wright, Franck, Barkman, Cummings, von Peter, McGlade, Corell, and Sterman. March 2009
Supporting Effective Participation in the Climate Change Debate: The Role of System Dynamics Simulation Modeling (62KB pdf), by Andrew Jones and Don Seville, 21 October, 2002.
Presentations and Podcasts
Interactive Webinar for Willamette University's System Dynamics Class (note - first 8 minutes were not recorded)
Carrying Our Trash - Presentation at Pegasus Communications' "Systems Thinking in Action" Conference, November 2008 (4 minutes)
(And here is Dana Meadows' column on the "Carry Your Trash" experience)
Acting on Interdependence: The Systems View, a talk delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, June 2007. Text pdf or mp3 podcast (20min).
Dana Meadows the Teacher - Unearthing our Visions and Driving Us Nuts. April 22, 2001. Html.
Climate Change Bathtub Simulation video. (8min)
Columns
The Christmas Tree Industry is One More Reason To Address Climate Change
When It Hurts So Good: How WNC Could Benefit Economically From Tackling Air Quality
We Can't Afford to "Wait and See" on Climate Change
The Trouble with Attractiveness - Raising Quality of Life Amidst Complex Urban Systems
Policy Exercises
Exercises on Systems Thinking as Applied to Public Health, for the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association. pdf
The Copenhagen Climate Exercise
Online Simulations
C-Learn International Climate Simulation. Linked here.
The Climate Bathtub Simulation. Linked here.
Awards
In 2008, as part of the CDC System Dynamics team, Drew accepted the "ASysT Prize" from the Applied System Thinking Institute.
In 1990, Drew won Dartmouth College’s Palaeopitus-Ray W. Smith Award for outstanding leadership.
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