The Global 2000 Report to the President. Documentation on the Government's Global Sectoral Models: The Government's 'Global Model'. Volume 3

摘要

This third volume of the Global 2000 Study presents basic information ('documentation' as it is termed by modelers) on the long-term sectoral models used by the U.S. Government to project global trends in population, resources and the environment. These models were the basis of the projections developed for the Global 2000 Study. Each of the sectoral models described in this Volume is a Government developed or Government endorsed model. Most of the models were developed directly by Government agencies. Three of the models--the GNP model, the nonfuel minerals demand model, and one of the population models--were developed by non-Governmental organizations, but have been applied or recommended by one or more Government agencies as being the best models available for the particular types of projections they provide.