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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... processes of Figures 1-4 and 1-5 take effect , the agricultural surplus available for export will decline . After the export buffer has been diverted to internal use , the full signifi- cance of Figure 1-5 will become apparent . For ...
... processes of Figures 1-4 and 1-5 take effect , the agricultural surplus available for export will decline . After the export buffer has been diverted to internal use , the full signifi- cance of Figure 1-5 will become apparent . For ...
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... processes become regenerative in a positive- feedback process . Pollution then increases rapidly until it becomes sufficiently high to reduce population and capital investment far enough that pollution gen- eration falls back below the ...
... processes become regenerative in a positive- feedback process . Pollution then increases rapidly until it becomes sufficiently high to reduce population and capital investment far enough that pollution gen- eration falls back below the ...
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... processes of the kind seen in the pollution sector . Neither are there any time delays between crowding and the effect on population growth . These omissions of factors that might be found in actual systems accounts for the smooth ...
... processes of the kind seen in the pollution sector . Neither are there any time delays between crowding and the effect on population growth . These omissions of factors that might be found in actual systems accounts for the smooth ...
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