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Consider nearly any major ecological or social phenomenon:

  • Human driven climate change

  • Fisheries collapse on the Grand Banks of the Atlantic ocean

  • Perpetuated financial inequalities

  • Periods of drought or flood, for example driven by El Niño

All of these are inherently temporal phenomena: a thing was once one way, and now it is different.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The mathematical notation used throughout this book for vectors, matrices etc. is summarized in Appendix D.

  2. 2.

    There has been significant recent work on causality, discussed briefly under further reading on page 62.

  3. 3.

    The text can be found online at the Donella Meadows Institute; a link is available from the textbook reading questions page.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Paul Fieguth

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Fieguth, P. (2021). Dynamic Systems. In: An Introduction to Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63168-0_4

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