Friday, 6 November 2015

Research Proposal


Effect and Efficiency of the environmental management under the macroscopical policy in developing countries.
Yamin Lu
University College Dublin 

Generally, Environment Management is at the tail of the policy-management chain which is often vertical. The vertical procedure is in strong order. The goal of development is at the top followed the supporting policies. Then the law and regulation are established. Finally, there came the management with amount of real difficulty. Sometimes, as there is little to do at the tail of a chain (which is not a good reflection system). The existing environment management difficulty is not able to be solved by the reflection based adjustment of topmost policies which do not exist. Hence, there came the gap. My research aims to model the Policy-Management Chain with system dynamics method. Or at least, it attempts to figure out a likely applicable direct link between environment management and the topmost goal and policy. Thus, I hope it is possible to create and compute a series of significant indices to describe the limitation of environment management with macroscopical policy.

As the research topic is too general and ambitious, I would separate it into four stages.
1. Benchmark the developed countries, find out and model the optimal policy-management chain. Recognize the adjustment method and claim and define indices of the chain.
2. Build an idealized simple system model to clarify the indices and relationship of each main elements in the system. Quantify the policy with numerical indices. Compare the simulation to prove the success of the model.
3. Fully test the model and use it in a small specific limited area.
4. Build policy and management tools or application with the model.



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