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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... examines some of the forces that will become barriers when growth goes too far . It examines the changes that can arise to stop exponential growth . It begins to examine the transition from a world of growth to a world in equi- librium ...
... examines some of the forces that will become barriers when growth goes too far . It examines the changes that can arise to stop exponential growth . It begins to examine the transition from a world of growth to a world in equi- librium ...
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... examine the assumptions and rela- tionships for plausibility . If he were to engage in extending and refining the model , he would want to test his alternate hypotheses by altering the assumptions given here to determine which changes ...
... examine the assumptions and rela- tionships for plausibility . If he were to engage in extending and refining the model , he would want to test his alternate hypotheses by altering the assumptions given here to determine which changes ...
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... examining the forces and interactions that can result from factors that are already known . We know much about the forces ... examine other kinds of world equilibrium that could be created by changes in social policies . 4.1 Reading the ...
... examining the forces and interactions that can result from factors that are already known . We know much about the forces ... examine other kinds of world equilibrium that could be created by changes in social policies . 4.1 Reading the ...
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