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The effect of a relationship like the one assumed in Figure 3 - 5 is to raise death
rate when food per person falls and to reduce death rate when food per person
rises . The result is to regulate population toward the maximum that ...
The effect of a relationship like the one assumed in Figure 3 - 5 is to raise death
rate when food per person falls and to reduce death rate when food per person
rises . The result is to regulate population toward the maximum that ...
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17 Birth - Rate - from - Food Multiplier BRFM The availability of food can be
expected to have a substantial effect on birth rate , especially in the critical region
where the population is undernourished . It appears that the world has normally ...
17 Birth - Rate - from - Food Multiplier BRFM The availability of food can be
expected to have a substantial effect on birth rate , especially in the critical region
where the population is undernourished . It appears that the world has normally ...
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Figures 4 - 9 and 4 - 10 show the mode produced by the crowding limit that is
inherent in the effect of crowding on population as asserted in Sections 3 . 14 and
3 . 16 . Crowding also operates indirectly on population through the food sector
as ...
Figures 4 - 9 and 4 - 10 show the mode produced by the crowding limit that is
inherent in the effect of crowding on population as asserted in Sections 3 . 14 and
3 . 16 . Crowding also operates indirectly on population through the food sector
as ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
Copyright | |
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accumulation action actual agriculture appear assumed assumptions average become behavior billion birth rate capital investment capital-investment cause Chapter consequences continue created crowding curve death rate decline defined depends described developed discard discussed dynamic effect environment equations equilibrium examine existing expect factors falling Figure food production food ratio food supply forces fraction future gives greater grow growth higher improve increase indicated industrialization influence initial land less limit LOGICAL FUNCTION loop lower material standard means mode MULTIPLIER DIMENSIONLESS natural resources natural-resource needed normal NREM occurs peak person policies pollution absorption pollution crisis pollution ratio POLR population possible PRESENT ORIGINAL pressures probably processes rate normal RATIO DIMENSIONLESS reaches reduced relationship remaining represents result rise sector shortage shown shows social systems space standard of living stop structure suppressed TABLE taken tion UNITS usage variable world system
Bibliographic information
| Title | World Dynamics |
| Authors | Jay W. Forrester, JAY W AUTOR FORRESTER |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Wright-Allen Press, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 142 pages |
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