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... UNITS / PERSON ) CAPITAL - INVESTMENT - IN - AGRICULTURE FRACTION ( DIMENSIONLESS ) CAPITAL - INVESTMENT - IN ... units of capital investment per person . Capital investment is measured in terms of 1970 per capita amount so the ratio has ...
... UNITS / PERSON ) CAPITAL - INVESTMENT - IN - AGRICULTURE FRACTION ( DIMENSIONLESS ) CAPITAL - INVESTMENT - IN ... units of capital investment per person . Capital investment is measured in terms of 1970 per capita amount so the ratio has ...
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... unit of pollution per person in 1970 , and so is 3.6 billion pollution units . POLR.K - POL.K / POLS POLS 3.6E9 POLR POL POLS 29 , A 29.1 , C · · POLLUTION RATIO ( DIMENSIONLESS ) POLLUTION ( POLLUTION UNITS ) POLLUTION STANDARD ( POLLUTION ...
... unit of pollution per person in 1970 , and so is 3.6 billion pollution units . POLR.K - POL.K / POLS POLS 3.6E9 POLR POL POLS 29 , A 29.1 , C · · POLLUTION RATIO ( DIMENSIONLESS ) POLLUTION ( POLLUTION UNITS ) POLLUTION STANDARD ( POLLUTION ...
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... UNITS / PERSON ) EFFECTIVE - CAPITAL - INVESTMENT RATIO NORMAL ( CAPITAL UNITS / PERSON ) FOOD COEFFICIENT ( DIMENSIONLESS ) FOOD COEFFICIENT NO . 1 ( DIMENSIONLESS ) FOOD - FROM - CROWDING MULTIPLIER ( DIMENSIONLESS ) FOOD - FROM ...
... UNITS / PERSON ) EFFECTIVE - CAPITAL - INVESTMENT RATIO NORMAL ( CAPITAL UNITS / PERSON ) FOOD COEFFICIENT ( DIMENSIONLESS ) FOOD COEFFICIENT NO . 1 ( DIMENSIONLESS ) FOOD - FROM - CROWDING MULTIPLIER ( DIMENSIONLESS ) FOOD - FROM ...
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 ratio CAPITAL-INVESTMENT-IN-AGRICULTURE FRACTION Chapter CI=C CIAF CIGN1 Club of Rome computer model crowding ratio curve decline DRFM ECIR effect effective-capital-investment ratio environment equations equilibrium exponential growth food production food ratio food supply FPMT in-agriculture fraction increase industrialization INTERPOLATION Limits to Growth LOGICAL FUNCTION Main Street Cambridge material standard mental models MULTIPLIER DIMENSIONLESS natural resources natural-resource Natural-resource-usage rate negative loop NR=N NREM NREMT NRUN1 POLN1 physical limits physical stress POLAT pollution absorption pollution crisis pollution-absorption population and capital population density PRESENT ORIGINAL pressures processes QL-Q ratio CIR RATIO DIMENSIONLESS rise Section sector shortage social stress social systems standard of living structure system levels TABHL TABLE LOOK tion units per person UNITS/PERSON/YEAR UNITS/YEAR usage rate variable world model world population world system