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Understanding urban sustainability and quality of life: A system dynamics approach.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Understanding urban sustainability and quality of life: A system dynamics approach./
Author:	Beck, Abby Elizabeth.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2012,
Description:	118 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 51-02.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International51-02(E).
Subject:	Environmental studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1516940
ISBN:	9781267567796

Understanding urban sustainability and quality of life: A system dynamics approach.
Beck, Abby Elizabeth.

Understanding urban sustainability and quality of life: A system dynamics approach. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2012 - 118 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 51-02.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2012.

For an urban area to be sustainable, its resources cannot be depleted faster than they can replenish. If an urban area is to provide a high quality of life (QOL), it must offer and maintain an amenity package that satisfies its resident's preferences. Past studies on these topics all have a common thread: sustainability and QOL both pertain to people's relationship to capital. Capital is something that can accumulate and add value to a person or society. If sustainability and QOL are a function of people's relationship with capital, how they use it, deplete it, replenish it and transform it into something else is important to know.

ISBN: 9781267567796Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122803
Environmental studies.

Understanding urban sustainability and quality of life: A system dynamics approach.
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520 $a Using the system dynamics method for understanding complex problems, I model the relationship between people and capital and illustrate how capital levels determine migration in and out of an urban area. The most common forms of capital affecting urban systems are economic, natural, human and social capital. Previous models that incorporate two or three of these stocks helped inform the structure of this model. However, no model includes the dynamics of all four forms of capital. I build upon these models to provide a more comprehensive model of society's behavior. By validating the model based on historic examples of urban decline and re-growth, I explain the implications and opportunities for analysis of urban behavior with this systemic approach.
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