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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... shortage until it is too late to redirect the forces of growth into a satisfactory form of long - term equilibrium . The abruptness seen in Figures 14 and 1-5 might not be so accentuated in real life because land is of varying quality ...
... shortage until it is too late to redirect the forces of growth into a satisfactory form of long - term equilibrium . The abruptness seen in Figures 14 and 1-5 might not be so accentuated in real life because land is of varying quality ...
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... shortage depresses the world system because of the natural - resource- extraction multiplier described in Section 3.6 that introduces the more difficult extraction task resulting from depleted and more diffuse stocks of resources . The ...
... shortage depresses the world system because of the natural - resource- extraction multiplier described in Section 3.6 that introduces the more difficult extraction task resulting from depleted and more diffuse stocks of resources . The ...
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... Shortage In Section 4.4 the effects of resource depletion and of pollution were suppressed to show the influence of crowding on growth . Now , if the effect of crowding is also eliminated , food shortage will become the limiting factor ...
... Shortage In Section 4.4 the effects of resource depletion and of pollution were suppressed to show the influence of crowding on growth . Now , if the effect of crowding is also eliminated , food shortage will become the limiting factor ...
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