This case series focuses students on boom-bust behavior in North sawmill wood. 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. In the case of this species at the trade group for the sawmills and plywood mills of the North Woods. "Hide
by Robert D. Landel, Andrew Jones Source: Darden School of Business 2 pages. Publication Date: April 8, 2004. Prod. #: UV3535-PDF-ENG
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