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A Nonlinear Dynamic Theory Of Economic Growth And Environmental Change
Author(s): Wei-bin Zhang (Author)
- Publisher: WSPC
- Publication Date: August 11, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 468 pages
- ISBN-10: 981981183X
- ISBN-13: 9789819811830
Book Description
This book focuses on economic theory and advances environmental economics by integrating various theories of modern economics in a comprehensive and analytical framework. The book is composed of many models — each emphasizing interactions between the environment and economic, technological, institutional, structural, or gender variables. The theory is constructed on the basis of a few concepts within a compact framework and it permits valid generalizations from one special modeling structure to another, and thus deepen understanding of the complexities of political, social, and economic dynamics in a systematical manner. Each model can be mathematically integrated with any other model in the book. The book also provides a computational procedure for simulation so that anyone can observe dynamics of the system using computers.
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About the Author
Wei-Bin Zhang, PhD (Umeå, Sweden), is a Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University since 2000. He graduated in 1982 from the Department of Geography, Beijing University. He obtained his Master’s Degree and Doctorate from the Department of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University in 1987. He was invited to do research in economics in Umeå University in October 1987 and completed his dissertation on economic growth theory in June, 1989. Since then, he had been a researcher in the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm for 10 years. He has also worked as a visiting scholar in USA, Japan, Mainland China, Austria, Singapore and Hong Kong. His main research fields are nonlinear dynamics (synergetic economics, chaos theory, complexity theory) in economics, economic theory, ancient Confucianism, trust and justice (sociology and philosophy), and economic development and modernization of Chinese societies (mainland China, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan). He is the sole author of 370 academic articles (220 in peer-review international journals), 29 academic books in English by well-known international academic publishing houses, and two books of poetry (in Chinese). He is also an editorial board member of 12 peer-review international journals. Prof. Zhang is the editor of Encyclopedia of Mathematical Models in Economics (in two volumes) which is part of the unprecedented global effort, The Encyclopedias of Life Support Systems, organized by The UNESCO.
