Resources

Blogs

MetaSD
Leverage Points [pegasus communications]
Making Connections [isee systems]

Learning Resources

Educational Institutions and Think/Do Tanks

Social System Design Lab
The Social System Design Lab at the Brown School of Social Work engages community and agency partners in developing system dynamics models of complex social issues and problems.

The Waters Foundation
Delivering academic and lifetime benefits to students through the effective application of systems thinking concepts, habits, and tools in classroom instruction and school improvment.

Creative Learning Exchange
CLE develops Systems Citizens in K-12 education who use systems thinking and system dynamics to meet the interconnected challenges that face them at personal, community, and global levels.

The Sustainability Institute
The Sustainability Institute applies systems thinking, system dynamics modeling, and organizational learning to economic, environmental and social challenges.

Santa Fe Institute
A private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center founded in 1984, for multidisciplinary collaborations in the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences. Understanding of complex adaptive systems is critical to addressing key environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political challenges.

Books/Curriculum

Road Maps: self study guide to learning system dynamics

MIT OpenCourseWare SD class

Modeling Software

System Dynamics

Stella/iThink
Vensim
SimGua
InsightMaker – web-based modeling community based on SimGua

Agent-Based

Repast
Swarm
NetLogo
Sugarscape

Multiuse

AnyLogic