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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... Club of Rome in Bern , Switzerland . The Club of Rome is a private group numbering some 75 members from many countries who have joined together to find ways vii.
... Club of Rome in Bern , Switzerland . The Club of Rome is a private group numbering some 75 members from many countries who have joined together to find ways vii.
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... Club of Rome to visit M.I.T. for two weeks to review the system dynamics program and to evaluate the applicability to the Club's project on world evolution . The invitation was accepted , and a conference was held beginning July 20 ...
... Club of Rome to visit M.I.T. for two weeks to review the system dynamics program and to evaluate the applicability to the Club's project on world evolution . The invitation was accepted , and a conference was held beginning July 20 ...
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... Club of Rome . It grew out of a meeting in Bern , Switzerland on June 29 , 1970 and from my own background of experience and reading . The model is preliminary . Its purpose is to raise questions and to trigger further work . In the ...
... Club of Rome . It grew out of a meeting in Bern , Switzerland on June 29 , 1970 and from my own background of experience and reading . The model is preliminary . Its purpose is to raise questions and to trigger further work . In the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
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1970 conditions accumulation 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 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 NRUN1 POLN1 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