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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... accumulation . Mathematically speaking , the process is one of inte- gration . Population at any point in time is ... accumulated in the system . If the level variables are given , the system rates can be computed from them . Therefore ...
... accumulation . Mathematically speaking , the process is one of inte- gration . Population at any point in time is ... accumulated in the system . If the level variables are given , the system rates can be computed from them . Therefore ...
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... accumulates per year . The coefficient CIGN , hav- ing a value of 0.05 unit per person per year , describes the normal accumulation rate for 1970 conditions . The multiplier CIM depends on the material standard of living and introduces ...
... accumulates per year . The coefficient CIGN , hav- ing a value of 0.05 unit per person per year , describes the normal accumulation rate for 1970 conditions . The multiplier CIM depends on the material standard of living and introduces ...
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... accumulation per person per year rises no further after capital accumulation reaches a point where more capital does not contribute to still greater human satisfaction . On the horizontal scale , a value of MSL of 5 would mean a world ...
... accumulation per person per year rises no further after capital accumulation reaches a point where more capital does not contribute to still greater human satisfaction . On the horizontal scale , a value of MSL of 5 would mean a world ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
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accumulation action actual agriculture appear assumed assumptions average become behavior billion birth rate capital investment Capital-investment cause Chapter consequences continue created crowding curve death rate decline defined depends described developed discard discussed dynamic effect environment equations equilibrium examine existing expect factor falling Figure food production food ratio forces fraction further future gives greater grow growth higher improve increase indicated industrialization influence initial land less limit LOGICAL FUNCTION loop lower material standard means mode MULTIPLIER DIMENSIONLESS natural resources natural-resource normal NREM NRUN1 occurs ORIGINAL peak person policies pollution absorption pollution crisis pollution ratio POLR population possible present pressures probably processes rate normal reaches reduced relationship remaining represents result rise sector shortage shown shows social systems space standard of living stop structure suppressed TABLE taken tion units usage variable world system