Publications

Recommended Books, Videotapes, & Papers

Here we list our publications as well as those by others which we recommend.

Books:

"To Govern Evolution:  Further Adventures of the Political Animal" by Walter Truett Anderson.

The message of this excellent book by Walter Truett Anderson is that the human species is gaining increasing control of its own evolution.  It discusses the signs of this haphazard transition to evolutionary governance, and appeals to the need to develop a world social and political concept to consciously and responsibly embrace and support this governance.

Videotapes:

"A System Dynamics View of Sustainability" by Willard R. Fey and Ann C. W. Lam.

This is a videotape of our plenary presentation at the ISSS 1998 annual meeting.  It includes complete audio and video of our multimedia, computer-generated presentation.  The tape running time is 33 minutes.

Papers:

"The Bridge to Humanity's Future" by Willard R. Fey and Ann C. W. Lam, 2000.

This paper describes the ECOCOSM Paradox and presents a method which can be used to solve it.  We recommend this paper along with the videotape as a first introduction to our ideas.

"The ECOCOSM Paradox:  Humanity's Tragic Dilemmas Arising from Earth's Environmental Crisis" by Willard R. Fey and Ann C. W. Lam.

This paper contains the complete text and diagrams presented in the videotape, along with an additional explanation of the ECOCOSM Paradox.  

"Pie in the Sky: A System Dynamics Perspective of Sustainability" by Willard R. Fey and Ann C. W. Lam.

This is the more detailed paper which was published in the ISSS 1998 conference procedings.

"Technology Forecasting in the ECOCOSM Paradox" by Willard R. Fey and Ann C. W. Lam.

This paper deals with the difficulties in trying to forecast the possible outcomes of the various responses to the Earth's environmental crises.  It defines and describes the concept of meta-feedback loops.

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