Customising the causal chain: an example from agriculture
As part of the EU-funded INTARESE project, which contributed to the development of this Toolbox, a case study was carried out to assess the health effects of agricultural land use change in Greece and England.
In the process, a conceptual model was built to define the system under consideration, and to highlight the elements that needed to be assessed. From an initially simple, highly structured representation of the causal chain, this gradually evolved into a more 'analytical' form, identifying the data and models that would be needed at each stage in the assessment.
The following causal diagram was created in Analytica. (Please note, this is not available as a working analytica model.) It should be compared with the more intuitive conceptual models developed using mind-mapping and system diagram methods (see links below).
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