ABSTRACT
Energy Systems Language is a tool for identifying self-organized environmental systems and exploring their development and possible responses to environmental change. It is a diagrammatic language not a computer language. The meaning of the resulting diagrams is so specific, however, that a simulation model can be directly derived from a diagram. The process of reading a diagram and deriving the simulation model is the main focus of this chapter. In addition, some background history and theory of the method will be mentioned along with some general guidelines for system identification through diagramming. With these tools, the reader may begin to find appropriate uses of Energy Systems Language in their own work.
