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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... space per person are on the verge of combining to generate pressures great enough to reduce birth rate and increase ... space . The clash is thereby accentuated . Consider , as an example , a population that is expanding into a fixed ...
... space per person are on the verge of combining to generate pressures great enough to reduce birth rate and increase ... space . The clash is thereby accentuated . Consider , as an example , a population that is expanding into a fixed ...
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... space oc- cupied ; and the more occupied space , the less agricultural land is left . Occupancy seems often to use the best land , and so the allotment of land of lower quality for food growing will increase the effect of crowding on ...
... space oc- cupied ; and the more occupied space , the less agricultural land is left . Occupancy seems often to use the best land , and so the allotment of land of lower quality for food growing will increase the effect of crowding on ...
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... space ship to the moon without first testing the equipment by constructing prototype models and by computer simula- tion of the anticipated space trajectories . No company would Epilogue 125 Social Values Improved Models of Social Systems.
... space ship to the moon without first testing the equipment by constructing prototype models and by computer simula- tion of the anticipated space trajectories . No company would Epilogue 125 Social Values Improved Models of Social Systems.
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