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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... peak and is starting to decline slightly . In fact , it is always at a peak or minimum of a varying quantity that the discrepancy between expectation and reality is greatest . The sense of disappoint- ment is explained by Edward ...
... peak and is starting to decline slightly . In fact , it is always at a peak or minimum of a varying quantity that the discrepancy between expectation and reality is greatest . The sense of disappoint- ment is explained by Edward ...
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... peak about year 2010 and declines as natural resources , population , and capital investment decline . 2020.- ment - in - agriculture fraction . Material standard of living reaches a peak at about year 2000 and then declines . At the peak ...
... peak about year 2010 and declines as natural resources , population , and capital investment decline . 2020.- ment - in - agriculture fraction . Material standard of living reaches a peak at about year 2000 and then declines . At the peak ...
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... peak population but does not eliminate or delay the pollution crisis . 2060 . With respect to the pollution mode of population collapse , it has already been pointed out that the geographical distributions of capital and population may ...
... peak population but does not eliminate or delay the pollution crisis . 2060 . With respect to the pollution mode of population collapse , it has already been pointed out that the geographical distributions of capital and population may ...
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