Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 
Volume 7 (2002), Issue 2, Pages 93-100
doi:10.1080/1026022021000000257

Complex coupled system dynamics and the global warming policy problem

J. Barkley Rosser Jr.

 Department of Economics, MSC 0204, James Madison University, Harrisonburg 22807, VA, USA
Received 14 April 2001

Abstract

A Public Domain, once a velvet carpet of rich buffalo-grass and grama, now an illimitable waste of rattlesnake-bush and tumbleweed, too impoverished to be accepted as a gift by the states within which it lies. Why? Because the ecology of this Southwest happened to be set on a hair trigger.—Aldo Leopold. 1933. The Conservation Ethic. Journal of Forestry 33: 636–637.