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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... shows the same population , doubling each 50 years , as in Figure 1-1 . Population is here assumed to be growing into a space of 24,000 million land units . The third column gives the land units needed for occupancy at the rate of 1 ...
... shows the same population , doubling each 50 years , as in Figure 1-1 . Population is here assumed to be growing into a space of 24,000 million land units . The third column gives the land units needed for occupancy at the rate of 1 ...
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... shows the effect assumed here on quality of life from material standard of living . The multiplier is 1 at the 1970 material standard of living of 1 . As MSL declines to zero , the quality of life is taken as falling to 0.2 of its ...
... shows the effect assumed here on quality of life from material standard of living . The multiplier is 1 at the 1970 material standard of living of 1 . As MSL declines to zero , the quality of life is taken as falling to 0.2 of its ...
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... shows the dynamics of the pollution sector during the same time and conditions as those represented in Figure 4-5 . Pollution rises steadily until about the year 2050 as a consequence of rising population and capital investment ...
... shows the dynamics of the pollution sector during the same time and conditions as those represented in Figure 4-5 . Pollution rises steadily until about the year 2050 as a consequence of rising population and capital investment ...
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