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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... shortage until it is too late to redirect the forces of growth into a satisfactory form of long - term equilibrium . The abruptness seen in Figures 1-4 and 1-5 might not be so accentuated in real life because land is of varying quality ...
... shortage until it is too late to redirect the forces of growth into a satisfactory form of long - term equilibrium . The abruptness seen in Figures 1-4 and 1-5 might not be so accentuated in real life because land is of varying quality ...
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... shortage depresses the world system because of the natural - resource- extraction multiplier described in Section 3.6 that introduces the more difficult extraction task resulting from depleted and more diffuse stocks of resources . The ...
... shortage depresses the world system because of the natural - resource- extraction multiplier described in Section 3.6 that introduces the more difficult extraction task resulting from depleted and more diffuse stocks of resources . The ...
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... shortage , crowding , and pollution . Many industrialized nations are now growing rapidly and placing ever greater demands on world resources . Many of those resources come from the presently underdeveloped countries . What will happen ...
... shortage , crowding , and pollution . Many industrialized nations are now growing rapidly and placing ever greater demands on world resources . Many of those resources come from the presently underdeveloped countries . What will happen ...
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