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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... capital - investment ratio CIR is a measure of all capital regardless of how it is used . This model system separates capital into that used for agriculture and that used for all other purposes . Therefore , the fraction of capital not ...
... capital - investment ratio CIR is a measure of all capital regardless of how it is used . This model system separates capital into that used for agriculture and that used for all other purposes . Therefore , the fraction of capital not ...
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... Capital - Investment - in - Agriculture Fraction CIAF Various choices could be made for handling the allocation of capital to differ- ent purposes . One could structure the model to generate capital investment sepa- rately for ...
... Capital - Investment - in - Agriculture Fraction CIAF Various choices could be made for handling the allocation of capital to differ- ent purposes . One could structure the model to generate capital investment sepa- rately for ...
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... capital - investment - in - agriculture fraction CIAF is to give food a priority over material goods so that the most pressing necessity of life gets preferred claim on the capital plant of the world . CIAF is a system level and ...
... capital - investment - in - agriculture fraction CIAF is to give food a priority over material goods so that the most pressing necessity of life gets preferred claim on the capital plant of the world . CIAF is a system level and ...
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