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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... forces of growth and the restraints of nature may be resolved in a number of ways . Man , if he understands well enough and acts wisely , can choose a path out of the conflict of world pressures that is more favorable than present ...
... forces of growth and the restraints of nature may be resolved in a number of ways . Man , if he understands well enough and acts wisely , can choose a path out of the conflict of world pressures that is more favorable than present ...
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... forces within the world system can exert them- selves and take control . Falling food supply , rising pollution , and decreasing space per person are on the verge of combining to generate pressures great enough to reduce birth rate and ...
... forces within the world system can exert them- selves and take control . Falling food supply , rising pollution , and decreasing space per person are on the verge of combining to generate pressures great enough to reduce birth rate and ...
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... forces and interactions that can result from factors that are already known . We know much about the forces creating growth of populations and of industrialization . We also know much about physical limits of land area , the exhaustion ...
... forces and interactions that can result from factors that are already known . We know much about the forces creating growth of populations and of industrialization . We also know much about physical limits of land area , the exhaustion ...
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