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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... exponential " growth . But exponential growth cannot continue indefinitely . Pure exponential growth possesses the characteristic of behaving according to a " doubling time . " Each fixed time interval shows a doubling of the relevant ...
... exponential " growth . But exponential growth cannot continue indefinitely . Pure exponential growth possesses the characteristic of behaving according to a " doubling time . " Each fixed time interval shows a doubling of the relevant ...
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... Exponential growth is only significant in comparison to some relevant limit . The power and nature of exponential growth are best appreciated through an example . Suppose , for purposes of illustration , that we start with a population ...
... Exponential growth is only significant in comparison to some relevant limit . The power and nature of exponential growth are best appreciated through an example . Suppose , for purposes of illustration , that we start with a population ...
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... exponential growth . It begins to examine the transition from a world of growth to a world in equi- • librium . It is surprising enough , as in Figure 1-2 , when exponential growth suddenly thrusts against fixed limits beyond which it ...
... exponential growth . It begins to examine the transition from a world of growth to a world in equi- • librium . It is surprising enough , as in Figure 1-2 , when exponential growth suddenly thrusts against fixed limits beyond which it ...
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