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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Page 36
... less than 20 per cent . Figure 3-1 assumes a 20 % increase for birth rate as the material standard of living drops toward zero . At the right - hand end of the figure , we expect the birth rate to decline , but the amount is not easy to ...
... less than 20 per cent . Figure 3-1 assumes a 20 % increase for birth rate as the material standard of living drops toward zero . At the right - hand end of the figure , we expect the birth rate to decline , but the amount is not easy to ...
Page 40
... less influential — that is , the curve should rise less at the left and fall less at the right . As with the other multipliers , the 1-1 point ( where the multiplier value is 1 at a material standard of living of 1 ) is taken as the ...
... less influential — that is , the curve should rise less at the left and fall less at the right . As with the other multipliers , the 1-1 point ( where the multiplier value is 1 at a material standard of living of 1 ) is taken as the ...
Page 104
... less than seen here in these computer runs . Only a detailing of the demographic sector and its local feedback loops could reveal the full extent of the probable ability of the entire system to absorb a birth - control program with ...
... less than seen here in these computer runs . Only a detailing of the demographic sector and its local feedback loops could reveal the full extent of the probable ability of the entire system to absorb a birth - control program with ...
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