Interested in learning more about Fisheries? Check the following:
The American Fisheries Society
The World Fish Center
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
* 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