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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... limit on population has been debated . The continued growth of population and the rise in the productivity of ... limit stands in the way of a quantity that is growing exponentially . In all previous time before the limit is approached ...
... limit on population has been debated . The continued growth of population and the rise in the productivity of ... limit stands in the way of a quantity that is growing exponentially . In all previous time before the limit is approached ...
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... limit are not great enough to suppress growth , then growth continues until the limit has been overstepped far enough to generate forces sufficient to inhibit growth . Exponential growth is only significant in comparison to some relevant ...
... limit are not great enough to suppress growth , then growth continues until the limit has been overstepped far enough to generate forces sufficient to inhibit growth . Exponential growth is only significant in comparison to some relevant ...
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... limit population and capital investment , the forces inherent in the natural and social system will rise high enough to limit growth . The question is only a matter of when and how growth will cease , not whether it will cease . The ...
... limit population and capital investment , the forces inherent in the natural and social system will rise high enough to limit growth . The question is only a matter of when and how growth will cease , not whether it will cease . 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