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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... units / person Figure 1-3 Food ratio ( adequacy ) as it depends on agricultural land units per person . Figure 1-3 presents an assumption about how the food per person is related to the agricultural land per person . Only the general ...
... units / person Figure 1-3 Food ratio ( adequacy ) as it depends on agricultural land units per person . Figure 1-3 presents an assumption about how the food per person is related to the agricultural land per person . Only the general ...
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... per capita to be used in determining the food ratio . 125 Cap The ge multipl ... PERSON ) 22.1 , C ng and CAPITAL - INVESTMENT RATIO ( CAPITAL UNITS / PERSON ) ... unit per person compared to the 1970 value of 1 unit per person . Because ...
... per capita to be used in determining the food ratio . 125 Cap The ge multipl ... PERSON ) 22.1 , C ng and CAPITAL - INVESTMENT RATIO ( CAPITAL UNITS / PERSON ) ... unit per person compared to the 1970 value of 1 unit per person . Because ...
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... per person on pollu- tion generation . For conditions in the year 1970 it has a defined value of 1. The coefficient ... unit per person per year to produce 3.6 billion units in one year . ( Pollution was defined for 1970 as being one ...
... per person on pollu- tion generation . For conditions in the year 1970 it has a defined value of 1. The coefficient ... unit per person per year to produce 3.6 billion units in one year . ( Pollution was defined for 1970 as being one ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
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