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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... future depends on policies that man may still be able to choose . The world system can exhibit many alternate modes of behavior in response to different policies that man might follow in guiding population growth , capital investment ...
... future depends on policies that man may still be able to choose . The world system can exhibit many alternate modes of behavior in response to different policies that man might follow in guiding population growth , capital investment ...
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... future in exchange for distress in the more distant future ? The effect of a corrective program can be along an entirely different direction than was originally expected . Suppressing one symptom may only cause trouble to burst forth at ...
... future in exchange for distress in the more distant future ? The effect of a corrective program can be along an entirely different direction than was originally expected . Suppressing one symptom may only cause trouble to burst forth at ...
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... future of the earth must be faced soon as a guide for present action . Goals of nations and societies must be altered to become compatible with that future , otherwise man remains out of balance with his environment . Man can do vast ...
... future of the earth must be faced soon as a guide for present action . Goals of nations and societies must be altered to become compatible with that future , otherwise man remains out of balance with his environment . Man can do vast ...
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