World dynamicsWright-Allen Press, 1971 - 142 pages |
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Page 80
... pressures created by the resource shortage . Of course , conflict for possession of resources could reverse that conclusion . This process of a solution creating a new problem has defeated many of our past national and world programs ...
... pressures created by the resource shortage . Of course , conflict for possession of resources could reverse that conclusion . This process of a solution creating a new problem has defeated many of our past national and world programs ...
Page 95
... pressures from rising population . Greater capital investment and more intensive use of land in agriculture have increased food output in the short run but in the long run have destroyed the productivity of vast land areas by erosion ...
... pressures from rising population . Greater capital investment and more intensive use of land in agriculture have increased food output in the short run but in the long run have destroyed the productivity of vast land areas by erosion ...
Page 121
... Pressures on the individual and the family would not seem threatening . Each family and even each nation would feel it could expand , if others were holding steady . The result would be incentives and psychological pressures to 2100 ...
... Pressures on the individual and the family would not seem threatening . Each family and even each nation would feel it could expand , if others were holding steady . The result would be incentives and psychological pressures to 2100 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
Copyright | |
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accumulation action actual agriculture appear assumed assumptions average become behavior billion birth rate capital investment Capital-investment cause Chapter consequences continue created crowding curve death rate decline defined depends described developed discard discussed dynamic effect environment equations equilibrium examine existing expect factor falling Figure food production food ratio forces fraction further future gives greater grow growth higher improve increase indicated industrialization influence initial land less limit LOGICAL FUNCTION loop lower material standard means mode MULTIPLIER DIMENSIONLESS natural resources natural-resource normal NREM NRUN1 occurs ORIGINAL peak person policies pollution crisis pollution ratio POLN1 POLR population possible present pressures probably processes raise rate normal reaches reduced relationship remaining represents result rise sector shortage shown shows social systems space standard of living stop structure suppressed TABLE taken tion units usage variable world system