We suggest a simple, interdisciplinary, qualitative, system-theoretical model of long-run environmental development, where the dynamics of environmental quality are determined by the interactions across the political, economic, ecological/natural, and socio-cultural systems. The resulting model...

One of the major topics in the nowadays developing countries is the question of the sustainability of their development strategies. While there are many economic arguments in the discussion of this topic, it seems that a system-theoretical analysis of the sustainability of development strategies...

We propose a system-theoretical model for analyzing the sustainability of (economic) growth and development. In particular, we set up a general dynamic system describing the dynamics of the economic and non-economic system (where the latter encompasses, e.g., the ecological, socio-cultural, and...