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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... Pollution Multiplier DRPM Pollution seems not to have been a major influence on death rate in the past . However ... ratio POLR . Pollution ratio is the ratio of world pollution level to the value of the world average in 1970. In the ...
... Pollution Multiplier DRPM Pollution seems not to have been a major influence on death rate in the past . However ... ratio POLR . Pollution ratio is the ratio of world pollution level to the value of the world average in 1970. In the ...
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... POLR · - FOOD - FROM - POLLUTION MULTIPLIER ( DIMENSIONLESS ) - LOGICAL FUNCTION , TABLE LOOK UP AND INTERPOLATION - FOOD - FROM - POLLUTION - MULTIPLIER TABLE POLLUTION RATIO ( DIMENSIONLESS ) present levels but that the reduction in ...
... POLR · - FOOD - FROM - POLLUTION MULTIPLIER ( DIMENSIONLESS ) - LOGICAL FUNCTION , TABLE LOOK UP AND INTERPOLATION - FOOD - FROM - POLLUTION - MULTIPLIER TABLE POLLUTION RATIO ( DIMENSIONLESS ) present levels but that the reduction in ...
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... pollution sector therefore differs from that in the capital- investment ... ratio . The pollution - absorption time is the " time constant " of decay of ... POLR of 1 represents the conditions exising in 1970. A value for POLAT of 1 year ...
... pollution sector therefore differs from that in the capital- investment ... ratio . The pollution - absorption time is the " time constant " of decay of ... POLR of 1 represents the conditions exising in 1970. A value for POLAT of 1 year ...
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