Prospects for Systems Analysis in an Age of Changing Systems: Thoughts from a Saturday Afternoon

摘要

The Harvard Water Program and other similar efforts beginning in the 1960s established the use of quantitative methods combining engineering and economic methods in a public policy context for water resources planning and management. This paper looks at the successes and limitations of this approach in recent decades and the challenges and evolution of this approach in current times of political decentralization and changing climates and objectives."It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)