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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... assumptions . Chapters 2 and 3 illustrate the process of going from ordi- nary , reasonable assumptions about the world system to a computer model that interrelates those assumptions . The computer then shows , as discussed in Chapters ...
... assumptions . Chapters 2 and 3 illustrate the process of going from ordi- nary , reasonable assumptions about the world system to a computer model that interrelates those assumptions . The computer then shows , as discussed in Chapters ...
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... assumptions within the theory become visible . The assump- tions can then be criticized . They can be compared with the assumptions in alternative proposed theories . Data and observations can be used to improve the assumptions . A ...
... assumptions within the theory become visible . The assump- tions can then be criticized . They can be compared with the assumptions in alternative proposed theories . Data and observations can be used to improve the assumptions . A ...
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... assumptions and rela- tionships for plausibility . If he were to engage in extending and refining the model , he would want to test his alternate hypotheses by altering the assumptions given here to determine which changes in assumptions ...
... assumptions and rela- tionships for plausibility . If he were to engage in extending and refining the model , he would want to test his alternate hypotheses by altering the assumptions given here to determine which changes in assumptions ...
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