World dynamicsWright-Allen Press, 1971 - 142 pages |
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Page 5
... space per person are on the verge of combining to generate pressures great enough to reduce birth rate and increase ... space . The clash is thereby accentuated . Consider , as an example , a population that is expanding into a fixed ...
... space per person are on the verge of combining to generate pressures great enough to reduce birth rate and increase ... space . The clash is thereby accentuated . Consider , as an example , a population that is expanding into a fixed ...
Page 48
... space oc- cupied ; and the more occupied space , the less agricultural land is left . Occupancy seems often to use the best land , and so the allotment of land of lower quality for food growing will increase the effect of crowding on ...
... space oc- cupied ; and the more occupied space , the less agricultural land is left . Occupancy seems often to use the best land , and so the allotment of land of lower quality for food growing will increase the effect of crowding on ...
Page 62
... space per person . At the high - crowding extreme , the quality of life is taken as falling to 0.2 of its 1970 value . Crowding here implies all of the detri- mental consequences of a high population density for the world - crime ...
... space per person . At the high - crowding extreme , the quality of life is taken as falling to 0.2 of its 1970 value . Crowding here implies all of the detri- mental consequences of a high population density for the world - crime ...
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