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The feedback loop is the closed path that connects an action to its effect on the surrounding conditions , and these resulting conditions in turn come back as " information " to influence further action . We often erroneously think of ...
The feedback loop is the closed path that connects an action to its effect on the surrounding conditions , and these resulting conditions in turn come back as " information " to influence further action . We often erroneously think of ...
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Above a sufficient amount of food , further increments of food rapidly lose capability to raise the quality of life . Likewise , below some acceptable level of pollution , further pollution reduction carries a low priority .
Above a sufficient amount of food , further increments of food rapidly lose capability to raise the quality of life . Likewise , below some acceptable level of pollution , further pollution reduction carries a low priority .
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Population will then rise further until the pressures reappear with an intensity that can no longer be relieved . Trying to raise quality of life without intentionally creating compensating pressures to prevent a rise in population ...
Population will then rise further until the pressures reappear with an intensity that can no longer be relieved . Trying to raise quality of life without intentionally creating compensating pressures to prevent a rise in population ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Toward a Global Equilibrium | 119 |
Epilogue | 123 |
Copyright | |
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accumulate action actual agriculture appear assumed assumptions average become behavior better 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 equation equilibrium examine existing expect factors falling Figure food production food ratio forces fraction further future gives grow growth higher improve increase indicates industrialization influence INITIAL land less limit LOGICAL FUNCTION loop lower material standard means mental mode MULTIPLIER DIMENSIONLESS natural resources NATURAL-RESOURCE needed normal NREM occurs person policies pollution crisis pollution ratio POLR population possible present pressures probably processes rate normal RATIO DIMENSIONLESS reaches reduced relationship remaining represents result rise sector shortage shown shows social systems space standard of living stop structure SWITCH TABLE taken tion understand UNITS usage variable world system
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| Title | World Dynamics |
| Author | Jay W. Forrester |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Wright-Allen Press, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 1563270595, 9781563270598 |
| Length | 142 pages |
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