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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... reaches a space limit , as industrial- ization reaches a natural - resource limit , and as both reach a pollution limit , population tends to catch up . Popula- tion then grows until the " quality of life " falls far enough to stabilize ...
... reaches a space limit , as industrial- ization reaches a natural - resource limit , and as both reach a pollution limit , population tends to catch up . Popula- tion then grows until the " quality of life " falls far enough to stabilize ...
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... reaches 5 times that in 1970. The assumed effect is from psychological factors , fear , and the threat from world conditions . In estimating the value of this relationship , we must keep in mind that it is the average world - wide ...
... reaches 5 times that in 1970. The assumed effect is from psychological factors , fear , and the threat from world conditions . In estimating the value of this relationship , we must keep in mind that it is the average world - wide ...
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... reaches a peak about year 2010 and declines as natural resources , population , and capital investment decline . 2020 . 2060 . ment - in - agriculture fraction . Material standard of living reaches a peak at about year 2000 and then ...
... reaches a peak about year 2010 and declines as natural resources , population , and capital investment decline . 2020 . 2060 . ment - in - agriculture fraction . Material standard of living reaches a peak at about year 2000 and then ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
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1970 conditions assumed assumptions behavior birth rate normal birth-control program BRFM BRN1 capital investment CAPITAL UNITS CAPITAL UNITS/PERSON CAPITAL-INVESTMENT DISCARD capital-investment multiplier capital-investment ratio CAPITAL-INVESTMENT-IN-AGRICULTURE FRACTION cause Chapter CI=C CIAF CIGN1 CIMT Club of Rome coefficient computer model crowding ratio curve death rate normal decline DRFM dynamic ECIR effect effective-capital-investment ratio equations equilibrium exponential growth food production food ratio food supply FPMT FRACTION/YEAR in-agriculture fraction increase industrialization INTERPOLATION limit LOGICAL FUNCTION material standard mental models MULTIPLIER DIMENSIONLESS natural resources natural-resource Natural-resource-usage rate negative loop NR=N NREM NREMT POLAT pollution absorption pollution crisis pollution ratio POLR pollution-absorption population and capital population density PRESENT ORIGINAL pressures QL-Q ratio CIR RATIO DIMENSIONLESS result rise Section sector shortage social systems SQUARE KILOMETERS standard of living system levels TABHL TABLE LOOK TIME.K tion units per person UNITS/PERSON/YEAR UNITS/YEAR usage rate variable world model world population world system