This study aims at elaborating a series of system models of the interactions between sustainability and economic development integrating various feedback structures from economic, social and environmental factors. System Dynamics approaches are subsequently sought to understand sustainable mechanism...
This study aims at elaborating a series of system models of the interactions between sustainability and economic development integrating various feedback structures from economic, social and environmental factors. System Dynamics approaches are subsequently sought to understand sustainable mechanisms entangled by coupling the three systems as well as to analyze a couple of local/regional development cases in Korea. The thesis therefore consists of three essays dealing with System Dynamics modeling and its applications about human activities in socio-economic contexts and their environmental interactions. The first essay provides discussion on the sustainability mechanisms at the macro level of economy with building a general-equilibrium model internalizing newly highlighted factors as knowledge and/or technology and environmental variables, based on recent theoretical progress in the Endogenous Growth theory. Through the methods of system thinking of the model structure and simulating dynamic behaviors of the model, the sustainability mechanisms, such as the generic structures of growth and the balancing mechanisms, are found and discussed in terms of technology and/or knowledge accumulation. The following essay is for the analysis of sustainable development at the local/regional level. The second model also presents some advanced chains of the sustainability mechanisms, such as the extended generic structures of growth, the eco-friendly value creation processes, and the revisited limit-to-growth structures, with incorporating socio-ecological factors as population, ecological resources, land stock, and socio-cultural capital, etc. The model is also applied to evaluate the local sustainability of the County of Damyang, JeollaNamDo where the New Bamboo Rehabilitation Project has been performed since 2002 as new development strategy. The case simulation suggests that the new development policy seems to be effective to enhance the local sustainability, and that such an approach can be fruitful to demonstrate the sustainability path of the locality illustrating the Damyang’s Sustainable Development Indicators Dashboard. The final essay treats of an augmentation of UD (Urban Dynamics) models in economic and environmental contexts to analyze and suggest the sustainable development mechanisms at the metropolitan level. The final model also gives some extensions of the growth and limit-to-growth structures inherited from the traditional UD models, with incorporating various metropolitan components such as capital and land stocks, industrial activities, traffic and park services, and relevant environmental variables. The final model is applied to the simulation of the regional sustainable development and the regulations on the regional NO2 emission in the SMR (Seoul Metropolitan Region). The simulation is performed to evaluate the long-term impacts of the NO2 regulation stringency followed by the implementation of the Special Measures for Metropolitan Air Quality Improvement in 2005 addressed by the Ministry of the Environment, Korea. Through the model elaborations and applications during the three essays, the thesis theoretically contributes to concretizing and modeling the sustainable development mechanisms suggesting the extended chains of the generic structures of socio-economic growth and the limit-to-growth feedback by coupling various factors as technology and/or knowledge, environmental and ecological resources, land and capital stocks, population and other social factors. The thesis furthermore contributes to provide empirical implications for developing and practicing sustainable local and/or regional strategies by suggesting a couple of prototypes for Korean localities.
This study aims at elaborating a series of system models of the interactions between sustainability and economic development integrating various feedback structures from economic, social and environmental factors. System Dynamics approaches are subsequently sought to understand sustainable mechanisms entangled by coupling the three systems as well as to analyze a couple of local/regional development cases in Korea. The thesis therefore consists of three essays dealing with System Dynamics modeling and its applications about human activities in socio-economic contexts and their environmental interactions. The first essay provides discussion on the sustainability mechanisms at the macro level of economy with building a general-equilibrium model internalizing newly highlighted factors as knowledge and/or technology and environmental variables, based on recent theoretical progress in the Endogenous Growth theory. Through the methods of system thinking of the model structure and simulating dynamic behaviors of the model, the sustainability mechanisms, such as the generic structures of growth and the balancing mechanisms, are found and discussed in terms of technology and/or knowledge accumulation. The following essay is for the analysis of sustainable development at the local/regional level. The second model also presents some advanced chains of the sustainability mechanisms, such as the extended generic structures of growth, the eco-friendly value creation processes, and the revisited limit-to-growth structures, with incorporating socio-ecological factors as population, ecological resources, land stock, and socio-cultural capital, etc. The model is also applied to evaluate the local sustainability of the County of Damyang, JeollaNamDo where the New Bamboo Rehabilitation Project has been performed since 2002 as new development strategy. The case simulation suggests that the new development policy seems to be effective to enhance the local sustainability, and that such an approach can be fruitful to demonstrate the sustainability path of the locality illustrating the Damyang’s Sustainable Development Indicators Dashboard. The final essay treats of an augmentation of UD (Urban Dynamics) models in economic and environmental contexts to analyze and suggest the sustainable development mechanisms at the metropolitan level. The final model also gives some extensions of the growth and limit-to-growth structures inherited from the traditional UD models, with incorporating various metropolitan components such as capital and land stocks, industrial activities, traffic and park services, and relevant environmental variables. The final model is applied to the simulation of the regional sustainable development and the regulations on the regional NO2 emission in the SMR (Seoul Metropolitan Region). The simulation is performed to evaluate the long-term impacts of the NO2 regulation stringency followed by the implementation of the Special Measures for Metropolitan Air Quality Improvement in 2005 addressed by the Ministry of the Environment, Korea. Through the model elaborations and applications during the three essays, the thesis theoretically contributes to concretizing and modeling the sustainable development mechanisms suggesting the extended chains of the generic structures of socio-economic growth and the limit-to-growth feedback by coupling various factors as technology and/or knowledge, environmental and ecological resources, land and capital stocks, population and other social factors. The thesis furthermore contributes to provide empirical implications for developing and practicing sustainable local and/or regional strategies by suggesting a couple of prototypes for Korean localities.
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