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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... major elements of the world ecology interact with each other . Because the " system dynamics " approach as already developed at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology seemed well suited , the group was invited to Cambridge to ...
... major elements of the world ecology interact with each other . Because the " system dynamics " approach as already developed at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology seemed well suited , the group was invited to Cambridge to ...
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... major factors are influenc- ing one another on a world - wide scale if we are to have confidence that our actions will lead to improvement rather than to making matters worse . Our knowledge and assumptions about the components of a ...
... major factors are influenc- ing one another on a world - wide scale if we are to have confidence that our actions will lead to improvement rather than to making matters worse . Our knowledge and assumptions about the components of a ...
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... major sectors of the world system . Section 2.1 introduces the complete system while the following sections identify major substructures that generate growth forces and equilibrium pressures . Chap- ter 2 should be read for general ...
... major sectors of the world system . Section 2.1 introduces the complete system while the following sections identify major substructures that generate growth forces and equilibrium pressures . Chap- ter 2 should be read for general ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
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