The Limits to Growth; a Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of MankindNew American Library, 1974 - 207 Seiten "In the summer of 1970, an international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a study of the implications of continued worldwide growth. They examined the five basic factors that determine and, in their interactions, ultimately limit growth on this planet--population in crease, agricultural production, non-renewable resource depletion, industrial output, and pollution generation. The MIT team fed data on these five factors into a global computer model and then tested the behavior of the model under several sets of assumptions to determine alternative patterns for mankind's future. The Limits to Growth is the nontechnical report of their findings."--Publisher |
Inhalt
Growth in the World System | 95 |
Technology and the Limits to Growth | 135 |
The State of Global Equilibrium | 161 |
Urheberrecht | |
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