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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... increase of 1.2 % per year . These rates are called " normal " rates because they correspond to a standard set of world conditions when the values of food , material standard of living , crowding , and pollution are all at their " stan ...
... increase of 1.2 % per year . These rates are called " normal " rates because they correspond to a standard set of world conditions when the values of food , material standard of living , crowding , and pollution are all at their " stan ...
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... increase in the material standard of living , and the generation rate of new capital no longer rises with higher levels of capital . Examining the positive loop in Figure 2-3 , we see that an increase in capital investment CI increases ...
... increase in the material standard of living , and the generation rate of new capital no longer rises with higher levels of capital . Examining the positive loop in Figure 2-3 , we see that an increase in capital investment CI increases ...
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... increases , the pollution- absorption time POLAT increases ; this reduces the rate of pollution absorption POLA , and tends to increase pollution POL . So an increase in pollution , traced around the loop , produces a still further increase ...
... increases , the pollution- absorption time POLAT increases ; this reduces the rate of pollution absorption POLA , and tends to increase pollution POL . So an increase in pollution , traced around the loop , produces a still further increase ...
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