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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... higher than ever before in history and higher now than the future offers . 4. Exhortations and programs directed at population con- trol may be inherently self - defeating . If population con- trol begins to result , as hoped , in ...
... higher than ever before in history and higher now than the future offers . 4. Exhortations and programs directed at population con- trol may be inherently self - defeating . If population con- trol begins to result , as hoped , in ...
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... higher standard of living , more food , and even increased population . If they succeed , as they may well do , the result will be to deepen the distress of the world as a whole and eventually to deepen the crises in the individual ...
... higher standard of living , more food , and even increased population . If they succeed , as they may well do , the result will be to deepen the distress of the world as a whole and eventually to deepen the crises in the individual ...
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... higher agricultural productivity to the conditions of Figure 5-8 . The effect is to raise population higher before the pollution crisis develops . The higher availability of food allows capital to be reallocated toward material standard ...
... higher agricultural productivity to the conditions of Figure 5-8 . The effect is to raise population higher before the pollution crisis develops . The higher availability of food allows capital to be reallocated toward material standard ...
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