This case series (see also B [UV3535], C [UV3536], D [UV3537], E [UV3538], F [UV3546] and G [UV4339] cases) focuses students on boom-bust behavior in North sawmill forest. Stakeholders, the landowners sawmill owners environmentalists government officials, they all want to make sure that the overall demand for logs, as shown in sawmill capacity does not exceed the rate at which trees grow. They do not want a saw demand for "release" the productive capacity of forest resources, a classic problem in the field of renewable resources, the economy, the region has experienced about a century earlier. Students are encouraged to use the system thinking skills (analysis of modes of behavior, cause-and-loop display and stock flow mapping) to create their causal conditions of the basic structure of the system. Students are asked to develop a systematic policy framework to help sustain and Industry and the region's natural resources. "Hide
by Robert D. Landel, Chris Lotspeich, Cheng Tsui Source: Darden School of Business 14 pages. Publication Date: Mar 05, 2004. Prod. #: UV3533-PDF-ENG
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