some Interesting (?) Links:        (return to home page)

Interested in learning more about Fisheries?  Check the following:

The American Fisheries Society  

The World Fish Center

FishBase (A Global Information System on Fishes)

Interested in System Dynamics?:

Learning about system dynamics:

System Dynamics Society    (source of the system dynamics bibliography)


Tom Fiddaman's Meta SD site

 See my papers re sd applied to fisheries, etc.

Software sources:

Vensim   Widely used with a fully functional free personal learning edition 
Stella
 At isee systems.......Widely used .
Powersim   Widely used.  Developed in Norway.  Available in English, German and Czech etc versions.
Simile   Available from Simulistics
Anylogic
 System dynamic modeling, agent baqsed modeling and other stuff all rolled into one impressive, and expensive, package.  BUT Get a free personal learning edition.. 
 

 


Corruption anyone?

A major factor affecting our work in Indonesia (and   elsewhere) is corruption which not only increases costs, but also affects the way in which planning decisions are reached.

See a review of causes of corruption using System Dynamics.

For more information contact Transparancy International.

And try the following anti-corruption links:

*Internet Center for Corruption Research 

*Anti-corruption home page of OECD 

*Indonesia Corruption Watch  

* IMF Publications Search 
enter "corruption in subject and leave other fields blank.  Then click on search.

*USAID - Anti-Corruption area (use search box)

*World Bank

-    Governance and Anti-Corruption