World modelling goes global

Staff at the Systems Analysis Research Unit of the UK Departments of the Environment and Transport, led by P.C. Roberts, have built a model of the world economic system and its natural resources. In September 1976, the modelling work of SARU was presented to a symposium at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. SARU's work on world modelling has so far received little exposure in the UK. Accordingly, the British National Committee for IIASA arranged for a one-day public presentation of SARU's modelling work at the Royal Society, London, on 3 October 1977.