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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... environment to dissipate pollution . This book examines the structure of countervailing forces at the world level when growth overloads the environment . The world will encounter one of several possible alternative futures depending on ...
... environment to dissipate pollution . This book examines the structure of countervailing forces at the world level when growth overloads the environment . The world will encounter one of several possible alternative futures depending on ...
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... environment . Noting the destruction that has al- ready occurred on land , in the air , and especially in the oceans , capability appears not to exist for handling such a rise in standard of living . In fact , the present disparity ...
... environment . Noting the destruction that has al- ready occurred on land , in the air , and especially in the oceans , capability appears not to exist for handling such a rise in standard of living . In fact , the present disparity ...
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... environment that they might prefer that the forces take the tangible forms of lowered material standard of living and reduced food supply . This chapter suggests that a global equilibrium is conceptually possible . Whether it can be ...
... environment that they might prefer that the forces take the tangible forms of lowered material standard of living and reduced food supply . This chapter suggests that a global equilibrium is conceptually possible . Whether it can be ...
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