World dynamicsWright-Allen Press, 1971 - 142 pages |
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... developed countries reaching the standard of living demonstrated by the present industrialized nations . The pollution and natural - resource load placed on the world environmental system by each person in an advanced country is ...
... developed countries reaching the standard of living demonstrated by the present industrialized nations . The pollution and natural - resource load placed on the world environmental system by each person in an advanced country is ...
Page 13
... developed a powerful approach to understanding the dynamics of complex sys- tems . The foundation was laid in the 1930's when Vannevar Bush built his differ- ential analyzer to solve the equations of certain simple engineering problems ...
... developed a powerful approach to understanding the dynamics of complex sys- tems . The foundation was laid in the 1930's when Vannevar Bush built his differ- ential analyzer to solve the equations of certain simple engineering problems ...
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... developed a population decline and a falling quality of life because natural resources were being exhausted . By assuming a technological solution , the system was freed from dependence on resources in Section 4.3 but a worse kind of ...
... developed a population decline and a falling quality of life because natural resources were being exhausted . By assuming a technological solution , the system was freed from dependence on resources in Section 4.3 but a worse kind of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
Copyright | |
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1970 conditions accumulation agricultural land assumed assumptions behavior billion 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-resource Natural-resource-usage rate negative loop NR=N NREM NREMT NRUN1 POLN1 POLAT pollution absorption pollution crisis pollution ratio POLR POLLUTION UNITS pollution-absorption population and capital population density pressures QL-Q ratio CIR RATIO DIMENSIONLESS result rise Section sector shortage social systems SQUARE KILOMETERS standard of living system levels TABHL TABLE LOOK tion units per person UNITS/PERSON/YEAR UNITS/YEAR usage rate variable world model world population world system