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... Club of Rome calls , the World Proble- matique . The World as a System The future development of the world will obviously be affected by very many factors population , foodstuffs , pollution , natural resources , tech- nological ...
... Club of Rome calls , the World Proble- matique . The World as a System The future development of the world will obviously be affected by very many factors population , foodstuffs , pollution , natural resources , tech- nological ...
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... Club of Rome , have actually got to date . The procedure in setting up a computerized model of a complex system is something like this . You start by choosing , on the basis of common sense , a certain number of major components of the ...
... Club of Rome , have actually got to date . The procedure in setting up a computerized model of a complex system is something like this . You start by choosing , on the basis of common sense , a certain number of major components of the ...
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... Club of Rome , 1971. There is an extensive controversial literature about both how its results should be interpreted ( as predic- tions of what will happen , or arguments about what might happen if . . . ? ) , and about the validity of ...
... Club of Rome , 1971. There is an extensive controversial literature about both how its results should be interpreted ( as predic- tions of what will happen , or arguments about what might happen if . . . ? ) , and about the validity of ...
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