A sustainability toolkit for simulaiton: Recent developments and future capabilities

The use of simulation to study complex systems having both productivity and sustainability related performance measures seems to be growing at a rapid pace. This paper describes the recent developments and discusses potential future capabilities of a sustainability toolkit for simulation. The intent of the toolkit is to make sustainability related performance measures as easy to model and collect as traditional productivity based performance measures. The current toolkit focuses on the environmental aspects of sustainability, however, the goal of the toolkit is to also include the social and economic aspects of sustainability in the near future.