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AbstractWe introduce the Lake Urmia Vignette (LUV) as a tool to assess individuals' understanding of complexity in socio‐environmental systems. LUV is based on a real‐world case and includes a short vignette describing an environmental catastrophe involving a lake. Over a few decades, significant issues have manifested themselves at the lake because of various social, political, economic, and environmental factors. We design a rubric for assessing responses to a prompt. A pilot test with a sample of 30 engineering graduate students is conducted. We compare responses to LUV with other measures. Our findings suggest that students' understanding of complexity is positively associated with their understanding of systems concepts such as feedback loops but not with other possible variables such as self‐reported systems thinking skills or systems‐related coursework. Based on the provided instructions, researchers can use LUV as a novel assessment tool to examine understanding of complexity in socio‐environmental systems.© 2020 System Dynamics Society

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introductions -- 1. Contemporary Law through the Classical Lens | Kirsten K. Davis and Francis J. Mootz III -- 2. Classical Rhetoric: Then and Now | Brian N. Larson and Kristen K. Tiscione -- II. Back to the Future: The Eclipse and Revival of Rhetoric -- 3. Giambattista Vico: Lamenting the Decline of Classical Rhetoric | Francis J. Mootz III -- 4. Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca: Answering Vico's Lament | David A. Frank -- III. Studies in Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Law -- 5. Antiphon the Athenian: Probability Arguments in Ancient Greece and Today | Michael Gagarin -- 6. Dissoi Logoi: Speaking on Both Sides of a Question | Elizabeth C. Britt -- 7. Isocrates: Fear of the "Other" in Classical and Modern Times | Nick J. Sciullo and Craig A. Meyer -- 8. Plato: Legal Argument as the Distortion of Reality | Kristen K. Tiscione -- 9. Aristotle: Persuasion and Practical Reason | Eugene Garver -- 10. Aristotle: Aristotle's Topics and U.S. v. Lopez | Catherine L. Langford -- 11. Demosthenes: Founding Principles-The Role of Tradition in Persuasive Argument | Vasileios Adamidis and Laura A. Webb -- 12. Cicero: Legal Stases and the Supreme Court | Brian N. Larson and Susan E. Provenzano -- 13. Quintilian: The Lawyer, Speaking-The Lawyer as "Perfect Orator" | Kirsten K. Davis -- 14. Saint Augustine: The Place of Rhetoric in the Law and Religion Interface | Mark A. Hannah -- Afterword | Brian N. Larson -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Names and Subjects Index -- Legal Materials Index.