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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... behavior . We are interested in the possible modes of behavior of the world system . Before one is justified in devoting large amounts of time to individual assumptions , he should see something of the total system behavior . Also ...
... behavior . We are interested in the possible modes of behavior of the world system . Before one is justified in devoting large amounts of time to individual assumptions , he should see something of the total system behavior . Also ...
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... behavior that have been assumed . The rules describe how each part of the system is to operate in response to pressures and influences from other parts of the system . The rules allow a computer to play the roles of the various elements ...
... behavior that have been assumed . The rules describe how each part of the system is to operate in response to pressures and influences from other parts of the system . The rules allow a computer to play the roles of the various elements ...
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Jay W. Forrester. • From the behavior of the system , doubts will arise that will call for a review of the original assumptions . From the process of working back and forth between assumptions about the parts and observed behavior of the ...
Jay W. Forrester. • From the behavior of the system , doubts will arise that will call for a review of the original assumptions . From the process of working back and forth between assumptions about the parts and observed behavior of the ...
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