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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... food supply , rising pollution , and decreasing space per person are on the verge of combining to generate pressures great enough to reduce birth rate and increase death rate . When ultimate limits are approached , negative forces in ...
... food supply , rising pollution , and decreasing space per person are on the verge of combining to generate pressures great enough to reduce birth rate and increase death rate . When ultimate limits are approached , negative forces in ...
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... Food Supply Figure 2-6 illustrates two negative loops that run through capital investment and food to regulate population in accordance with food supply . In the outer loop , if population P rises , capital investment ratio CIR ...
... Food Supply Figure 2-6 illustrates two negative loops that run through capital investment and food to regulate population in accordance with food supply . In the outer loop , if population P rises , capital investment ratio CIR ...
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... food multiplier BRFM BRFMT 17 DRFM DRFMT 13 Death - rate - from- food multiplier Food ratio FR 19 CIRA 22 CIR Capital - investment ratio in agriculture FPCI FPCIT Food ... food supply , the greater the Structure of the World System 27.
... food multiplier BRFM BRFMT 17 DRFM DRFMT 13 Death - rate - from- food multiplier Food ratio FR 19 CIRA 22 CIR Capital - investment ratio in agriculture FPCI FPCIT Food ... food supply , the greater the Structure of the World System 27.
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