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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... stop the growth processes that had previously been in control . In one brief moment of time the world finds that the apparent law of exponential growth fails as the complete description of nature . Other fundamental laws of nature and ...
... stop the growth processes that had previously been in control . In one brief moment of time the world finds that the apparent law of exponential growth fails as the complete description of nature . Other fundamental laws of nature and ...
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... stop the rise in population . Regardless of the assumptions about the sensitivity of birth and death rates to the food ratio , if all other influences on growth are removed , the population will rise by as much as necessary to generate ...
... stop the rise in population . Regardless of the assumptions about the sensitivity of birth and death rates to the food ratio , if all other influences on growth are removed , the population will rise by as much as necessary to generate ...
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... stop population growth , but it also is encountering the pressures that will stop the rise of both industrialization and the world average of standard of living . The social stresses will rise still higher . The economic forces will be ...
... stop population growth , but it also is encountering the pressures that will stop the rise of both industrialization and the world average of standard of living . The social stresses will rise still higher . The economic forces will 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