System Dynamics Modeling of Community Sustainability in NetLogo

The goal of this project is to apply system dynamics modeling to a basic instance of the contemporary issue of sustainability. System dynamics modeling is especially well-suited to the topic of sustainabil-ity; the flows and stocks involved with this sort of modeling are the keys needed to express the relationships between quantities and to ob-serve their interactions. My project would model an arbitrary system, which would be a basic model representative of more realistic systems. The results of the model will be displayed to the user graphically. The goal of this project is to create a system that functions harmoniously over a sustained period of time rather than one that spirals wildly out of control. Sustainability is of course a large, well-researched field and more complex research has certainly been conducted prior to this. However, I think that my project would nonetheless increase student understanding of the issue and system interactions, and that system dynamics provides a particularly insightful prospective for this topic