Donella H. Meadows

Diana Wright

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Meadows' newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.

A Primer

Thinking in Systems

Jorgen Randers

Dennis L. Meadows

The 30-Year Update

Limits to Growth

Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble and to continue to learn.In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions. A vital read for students, professionals and all those concerned with economics, business, sustainability and the environment

Jørgen Randers

A 30 year update to the ground-breaking environmental classic, "Limits to Growth.

The 30-year Update

The Limits to Growth

Club of Rome

Club de Rome

Potomac Associates

William Behrens

A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind

In The Global Citizen, Donella Meadows challenges us to view the world as an interconnected system for which we are all responsible. This collection of the best of Meadows's environmental writings demonstrates her rare ability to discuss complex issues such as population, poverty and development, and solid waste disposal in a clear, concise, engaging way for a wide audience.

The Global Citizen

En los años posteriores a su papel como autora principal del bestseller internacional "Límites del crecimiento", el primer libro que muestra las consecuencias del crecimiento descontrolado en un planeta finito, Donella Meadows siguió siendo una pionera del análisis ambiental y social hasta su prematura muerte en 2001. Este manual esencial lleva el pensamiento sistémico fuera del ámbito de las computadoras y las ecuaciones al mundo tangible, mostrando a los lectores cómo desarrollar las habilidades del pensamiento sistémico que los líderes de pensamiento de todo el mundo consideran fundamentales para la vida d siglo XXI. Algunos de los mayores problemas que enfrenta el planeta - guerras, hambre, pobreza y degradación ambiental - son esencialmente fallos del sistema. No pueden resolverse arreglando una pieza de forma aislada de las demás, porque incluso los detalles aparentemente menores tienen un enorme poder para socavar los mejores esfuerzos de un pensamiento demasiado estrecho. Si bien los lectores aprenderán las herramientas conceptuales y los métodos del pensamiento sistémico, el corazón del libro es más grandioso que la metodología. Donella Meadows era conocida tanto por cultivar resultados positivos como por profundizar en la ciencia detrás de los dilemas globales. Ella les recuerda a los lectores que presten atención a lo que es importante, no solo a lo cuantificable, que se mantengan humildes y sigan aprendiendo. En un mundo cada vez más complicado, abarrotado e interdependiente, "Pensar en sistemas" ayuda a los lectores a evitar la confusión y la impotencia, el primer paso para encontrar soluciones proactivas y eficaces.

Un manual de iniciación

Pensar en sistemas

Sustainability Institute

Places to Intervene in a System

Leverage Points

Anschauliche und leicht verständliche Einführung in das Gebiet komplexer Systeme, die es überall in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft sowie in den Naturwissenschaften gibt.

wie wir sie mit System erkennen und überwinden können

Die Grenzen des Denkens

Bericht des Club of Rome zur Lage der Menschheit

Die Grenzen des Wachstums

Twenty years after their influential book, The Limits to Growth, was published to worldwide acclaim, the authors revise several scenarios of growth, concluding that the global industrial system has already overshot some of the Earth's vital ecological limits.

Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future

Beyond the Limits

A obra clássica sobre pensamento sistêmico, fundamental para a resolução de problemas de qualquer escala. Uma leitura essencial para líderes, executivos e dirigentes, mas também para todos que se preocupam com o futuro da humanidade e do planeta. Alguns dos maiores desafios que o mundo enfrenta – guerra, fome, pobreza e degradação ambiental – são, em essência, falhas do sistema. Não é possível resolvê-los ajustando uma peça isolada, porque mesmo os menores detalhes podem minar grandes esforços caso pensemos de modo restrito. Este livro conciso e revelador, escrito pela pioneira da análise social e ambiental, traz para o mundo tangível a metodologia e os conceitos básicos do pensamento sistêmico. Com exemplos simples do dia a dia, ensina a desenvolver habilidades que lideranças responsáveis do mundo inteiro consideram cruciais para a vida no século 21. Porém, o coração de Pensando em sistemas extrapola as fronteiras da metodologia. Donella Meadows se tornou conhecida tanto por se aprofundar na ciência por trás dos dilemas globais quanto por obter resultados positivos. Apesar de escrito há quase três décadas, é fácil enxergar como os princípios dos sistemas se aplicam às grandes questões do nosso tempo – do desmatamento da Amazônia às oscilações das taxas de juros, da sustentabilidade das cidades às questões do clima. Mais do que apresentar uma nova maneira de resolver problemas, este livro lembra a todos nós da importância de nos mantermos humildes diante do que não sabemos e sempre ávidos por aprender.

Como o pensamento sistêmico pode ajudar a resolver os grandes problemas globais

Pensando em sistemas

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot, ' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in "The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update,"Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet.Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original "Limits to Growth," While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes.In many ways, the message contained in "Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update" is a warning. Overshoot cannot be sustained without collapse. But, as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of its damage to Earth if it takes appropriate measures to reduce inefficiency and waste.Written in refreshingly accessible prose, "Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update" is a long anticipated revival ofsome of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. "Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update" is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth and human development.

a collection of 20 copies in various languages of Limits to growth and 5 copies in various languages of Toward global equilibrium].

Limits to growth by Donella H. Meadows and others and Toward global equilibrium by Donella H. Meadows and Dennis L. Meadows

Uses computer modelling to demonstrate how unchecked growth on our finite planet will lead the Earth towards ecological disaster unless rapid readjustment of the global economy is made.

a collection of 20 copies in various languages of Limits to growth and 5 copies in various languages of Toward global equilibrium and 1 copy of The global citizen in German].

Limits to growth by Donella H. Meadows and others and Toward global equilibrium by Donella H. Meadows and Dennis L. Meadows and The global citizen by Donella H. Meadows

The papers of Donella H. Meadows contain manuscripts of her writings and publications including "The llmits to growth" and "Beyond the limits," as well as notebooks, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, negatives, slides, and materials related to her teaching in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College and her involvement with the Club of Rome and the Sustainability Institute. The collection also contains transcripts, correspondence, and notebooks related to the "State of the world" television program, "Race to save the planet" and manuscripts of the textbook "A sustainable world: an introduction to environmental systems." Additionally clippings of her newspaper column "The global citizen" and her "Dear folks" newsletter are included. The papers also include a collection of Meadows' personal papers including letters and photographs documenting early education, personal relationships, and travel.

Donella H. Meadows

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