Surveys & Toy Models

Online Surveys

• Myths of the Future
• Assessing attitudes and cognitive styles of stakeholders in environmental projects involving computer modelling - Version 3 (most up-to-date version, with improved Myths of Nature questions)
• As above, for 'APE Mental Models' paper
• Assessing attitudes and cognitive styles of stakeholders in environmental projects involving computer modelling - Version 2 (improved)
• Assessing attitudes and cognitive styles of stakeholders in environmental projects involving computer modelling - Version 1 (as used inBoschetti F, Richert, Walker, Price & Dutra, 2012, Assessing attitudes and cognitive styles of stakeholders in environmental projects involving computer modelling, Ecological Modelling, 247, 98–111, 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.07.027)

Questionnaires

Questionnaire used in the experiement in Boschetti, Hardy, Grigg & Horwitz, 2011, Can we learn how complex systems work?, Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 13, 4, 47-62.

• Questionnaire 1 (System Dynamics ‘Pen & Paper’ Test)
• Questionnaire 2 (Personality Test)
• Questionnaire 3 (Self Evaluation)
• Questionnaire 4 (General Feedback)
• Questionnaire 5 (System Dynamics ‘Pen & Paper’ Test 2)

Toy Models

In complex system science, ecological modelling, economic modelling and the like, models are mostly understood as scenario testing or predictive tools, but there is an increasing awareness of their potential as flight-simulators, training users to fly in the space of management challenges and to land on the appropriate strategy. Here you can find some of the models we developed. For more information see Boschetti, Hardy, Grigg & Horwitz, 2011, Can we learn how complex systems work?, Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 13, 4, 47-62.

With further effort it is possible to build similar models to address other dynamical processes characterising complex systems, like phase transitions, tipping points, hysteresis, and oscillations. These could stand for exercise machines in a virtual gym for system managers.