World Dynamics1971 |
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... growth in population , with its attendant industrialization and pollution , comes from circular processes in which each sector both enhances and feeds on other sectors . But in time , growth encounters limits set by nature . Land and ...
... growth in population , with its attendant industrialization and pollution , comes from circular processes in which each sector both enhances and feeds on other sectors . But in time , growth encounters limits set by nature . Land and ...
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... growth , then growth continues until the limit has been overstepped far enough to generate forces sufficient to inhibit growth . Exponential growth is only significant in comparison to some relevant limit . The power and nature of ...
... growth , then growth continues until the limit has been overstepped far enough to generate forces sufficient to inhibit growth . Exponential growth is only significant in comparison to some relevant limit . The power and nature of ...
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governed growth . Population , which doubled 12 times in the preceding 600 years , only doubles twice more between the 600th and the 700th years . But in this one century it becomes apparent that 50 - year doubling cannot continue as ...
governed growth . Population , which doubled 12 times in the preceding 600 years , only doubles twice more between the 600th and the 700th years . But in this one century it becomes apparent that 50 - year doubling cannot continue as ...
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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 birth rate normal birth-control program BRFM BRMM BRN1 capital investment CAPITAL UNITS CAPITAL UNITS/PERSON CAPITAL-INVESTMENT DISCARD capital-investment multiplier capital-investment ratio CAPITAL-INVESTMENT-IN-AGRICULTURE FRACTION cause Chapter CIAF CIGN1 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 MULTIPLIER DIMENSIONLESS natural resources natural-resource Natural-resource-usage rate negative loop NR=N NREM NREMT NRUN1 POLN1 POLAT POLCM pollution absorption pollution crisis pollution-absorption population and capital population density PRESENT ORIGINAL pressures ratio CIR RATIO DIMENSIONLESS result rise Section sector shortage social systems SQUARE KILOMETERS standard of living system levels TABHL TABLE LOOK TIME.K tion units per person UNITS/PERSON/YEAR UNITS/YEAR usage rate variable world model world population world system