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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... become exhausted , and the pollution - dissipation capac- ity of the earth becomes overloaded . . The battle between the forces of growth and the restraints of nature may be resolved in a number of ways . Man , if he understands well ...
... become exhausted , and the pollution - dissipation capac- ity of the earth becomes overloaded . . The battle between the forces of growth and the restraints of nature may be resolved in a number of ways . Man , if he understands well ...
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... become regenerative in a positive- feedback process . Pollution then increases rapidly until it becomes sufficiently high to reduce population and capital investment far enough that pollution gen- eration falls back below the newly ...
... become regenerative in a positive- feedback process . Pollution then increases rapidly until it becomes sufficiently high to reduce population and capital investment far enough that pollution gen- eration falls back below the newly ...
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... become geared to a philosophy of growth and rising standard of living for everyone . This cannot continue indefinitely . New human purposes must be defined to replace the quest for economic advancement . Nature must be helped rather ...
... become geared to a philosophy of growth and rising standard of living for everyone . This cannot continue indefinitely . New human purposes must be defined to replace the quest for economic advancement . Nature must be helped rather ...
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 birth rate normal birth-control program BRFM BRN1 capital investment CAPITAL UNITS CAPITAL UNITS/PERSON CAPITAL-INVESTMENT DISCARD capital-investment ratio CAPITAL-INVESTMENT-IN-AGRICULTURE FRACTION cause Chapter CI=C CIAF CIGN1 CIMT Club of Rome coefficient computer model crowding ratio curve 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 POLCM pollution absorption pollution crisis pollution ratio POLR POLLUTION UNITS pollution-absorption population and capital population density pressures QL-Q 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