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behavior of the CLIOS system will come through while thinking about how it can
be subdivided into the different layers.
For the Institutional Sphere
: We then identify the major actor groups on the
institutional sphere. he general categories may include government agencies, pri-
vate sector firms, citizen groups, as well as independent expert/advisory entities
and so forth. his can be derived from the checklists in terms of who manages the
system, who is affected by it, who attempts to influence, it, and, in general, who
worries about it.
2.2.3.5.1.3 CLIOS Step 3: Populate the Physical Domain and the
Institutional Sphere —
PopulatingthePhysicalDomain
: In this step we employ
the type of basic subsystem diagram common in systems sciences, “defined as
having components and relations that may be represented (at least in principle)
as a network-type diagram with nodes representing components and lines repre-
senting the relationships” (Flood and Carson, 1993). Initial CLIOS subsystem
diagrams are created by detailing each subsystem and identifying the major com-
ponents in each and the links indicating the influence of the components on each
other. Sometimes a component can be common to more than one subsystem
(Mostashari and Sussman, 2009).
Figure 2.3 shows the populated subsystems and the concept of the
common
driver
linking them.
his type of representation is similar to causal loop diagrams (CLDs) used in
System Dynamics, and system dynamics software provides a good platform for
developing computer-aided CLIOS systems representations. One technique that
can be used for increasing the resolution of the system representation without creat-
ing overcrowded diagrams is
expanding
. Expanding focuses on critical components
and magniies their functions into separate diagrams for more detailed study. his
is shown in Figure 2.4.
Populating the Institutional Sphere:
Parallel to populating the subsystems of
the physical domain with components, we populate the institutional sphere with
Component
Link
Subsystem 1
Subsystem 2
Subsystem 3
Subsystem 4
Figure2.3
Populatingthesubsystemdiagrams.
