World DynamicsExamination of the structure of countervailing forces such as population growth, food production, capital investment, natural resources depletion, pollution, etc., at world level when exponential growth rate overburdens the environment - simulates world growth trends by means of a large-scale computer model and shows that a global equilibrium could be achieved if social policies and programmes were chosen taking into account the dynamic characteristics of world social systems. Flow charts. |
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... accumulation . Mathematically speaking , the process is one of inte- gration . Population at any point in time is ... accumulated in the system . If the level variables are given , the system rates can be computed from them . Therefore ...
... accumulation . Mathematically speaking , the process is one of inte- gration . Population at any point in time is ... accumulated in the system . If the level variables are given , the system rates can be computed from them . Therefore ...
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... accumulates per year . The coefficient CIGN , hav- ing a value of 0.05 unit per person per year , describes the normal accumulation rate for 1970 conditions . The multiplier CIM depends on the material standard of living and introduces ...
... accumulates per year . The coefficient CIGN , hav- ing a value of 0.05 unit per person per year , describes the normal accumulation rate for 1970 conditions . The multiplier CIM depends on the material standard of living and introduces ...
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... accumulation per person per year rises no further after capital accumulation reaches a point where more capital does not contribute to still greater human satisfaction . On the horizontal scale , a value of MSL of 5 would mean a world ...
... accumulation per person per year rises no further after capital accumulation reaches a point where more capital does not contribute to still greater human satisfaction . On the horizontal scale , a value of MSL of 5 would mean a world ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
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1970 conditions accumulation agricultural land assumed assumptions behavior billion birth rate normal birth-control program BRFM BRN1 CAPITAL UNITS CAPITAL UNITS/PERSON CAPITAL-INVESTMENT DISCARD capital-investment multiplier capital-investment ratio CAPITAL-INVESTMENT-IN-AGRICULTURE FRACTION cause Chapter CI=C CIAF CIGN1 CIMT Club of Rome coefficient computer model crowding ratio curve death rate normal decline DRFM dynamic ECIR effect effective-capital-investment ratio equations equilibrium exponential growth food production food ratio food supply FPMT FRACTION/YEAR in-agriculture fraction increase industrialization INTERPOLATION limit LOGICAL FUNCTION material standard mental models mode MULTIPLIER DIMENSIONLESS Natural resources Quality natural-resource Natural-resource-usage rate negative loop NR=N NREM NREMT POLAT pollution absorption pollution crisis POLLUTION UNITS pollution-absorption population and capital population density PRESENT ORIGINAL pressures QL-Q ratio CIR result rise Section sector shortage social systems SQUARE KILOMETERS standard of living structure system levels TABHL TABLE LOOK tion units per person UNITS/PERSON/YEAR UNITS/YEAR usage rate variable world model world population world system