Dennis L. Meadows's research while affiliated with Dartmouth College and other places
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Publications (42)
This poster resulted from a brainstorming session held in Berlin organized and supported by World Business Council for Sustainable Development
I provide a personal reflection on the history of interactive gaming and “management flight simulators” in system dynamics, offering practical advice on the attributes of effective games and gaming. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
In this unpublished memoir, written in the early 1990s, the late Dana Meadows reflects on the history of The Limits to Growth, including its origins, conclusions, and the reactions it generated. This memoir had been condensed and edited by Dennis Meadows. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Sequel to The limits to growth this book presents a renewed and refined version of the 1972 assessment and warnings. Better data, improved modelling and 20 yr of hindsight lead the authors to conclude that many resource and pollution flows are now no longer approaching the limits. Adopting a systems viewpoint and using the World3 model it is shown...
301 p., fig. Beyond the Limits Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future is the path-breaking sequel to The Limits to Growth, the international best-seller which sold 9 million copies in 29 languages when it was published 20 years ago. At that time the authors concluded that if the present trends of growth continued unchanged, t...
The Dartmouth System Dynamics Group identifies a long-term transition energy strategy that focuses on complex interrelationships, response delays, nonlinearities, and the system's feedback loop structure. Short-term policy issues include: reducing demand growth, developing synthetic fuels from coal, deregulation of oil and gas, SO2 legislation, uti...
A recently reported typographical error in our global computer simulation model did exist, but had only a small quantitative effect on the published results. The error was not responsible for the pollution crisis mode; its removal does not stabilise the model system and the conclusions are unaffected by the numerical change.
The science of ecology has suddenly been brought into the arena of political debate. As a result, most ecologists are confronted with an embarassing quandary. As scientists they realize the imperfections in their knowledge of ecological systems, and they are understandably reluctant to make pronouncements about environmental policy until complete e...
The vast majority of the decisions made in our global society are responses to problems in which cause and effect are closely related in time and in space. When a problem becomes important, its source is usually obvious, and any appropriate response usually becomes effective in time to eliminate the difficulty. For this class of phenomena it is sat...
The basic energy problem facing the U.S. and other industrialized nations is not to secure independence from foreign energy suppliers, but instead to negotiate an orderly transition from primary reliance on fossil oil and gas resources to predominant use of energy sources not tied to finite fuel reserves. This report describes the major energy prob...
Written by the authors of The Limits to Growth, the book reinvigorates the argument that continued population growth and consumption might outstrip the Earth's natural capacities. The authors use updated figures and information to restate the orginal case presended 20 years ago. It is not hostile to technolgical solutions, but it does argue that te...
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... Eine Zuspitzung der sozialen sowie ökologischen Lage erfolgte dabei bereits mit dem Produktionszuwachs unter unzureichenden Umweltauflagen, nach Verlagerung der nördlichen Produktionszentren in den globalen Süden zum Ende der 1970er-Jahre. (Meadows et al. 2009). Vor allem durch das erhöhte Aufkommen und den Abbau von Rohstoffen im globalen Süden unter menschenrechtsverletzenden und umweltschädigenden Umständen, entstehen Bedarfe an entwicklungspolitischen Maßnahmen. ...
... The exploitation of natural resources remained a major concern as commodity prices stopped declining after the end of the Second World War (Krutilla, 1967;Naya, 1967;Slade, 1982). In the report "The Limits to Growth", Meadows et al. (1972) expressed the importance to foster an economically and ecologically sustainable condition, while Solow (1974) advocated the need to implement public policies for natural resource management. Cropper (1976) highlighted the risk of catastrophic events from sudden resource depletion, which Ehrlich (1981) considered an existential threat to human civilisation. ...
... Las aceleradas pautas de crecimiento y sobreexplotación características del Antropoceno, junto al hecho de que vivimos en un planeta de recursos initos y de espacio ecológico limitado, ponen de maniiesto una incómoda realidad física: que el crecimiento en el consumo per cápita de recursos naturales de una población en constante crecimiento no puede mantenerse de forma indeinida en el tiempo sin acabar chocando con los límites biofísicos del planeta (Daly & Farley, 2011). Continuar ignorando esta realidad termodinámica en pleno siglo veintiuno podría resultar fatal durante las próximas décadas para el planeta y para nuestra especie, pues tal y como han puesto de maniiesto numerosos trabajos cientíicos, el fenómeno emergente del Cambio Global abre la puerta -cada día con más rotundidad-a la posibilidad de sufrir un colapso socio-ecológico de magnitudes planetarias (Bardi, 2014;Ehrlich & Ehrlich, 2013;Lenton et al., 2008;Meadows et al., 1972;Motesharrei et al., 2014;Rockström et al., 2009;Stefen et al., 2004;Turner, 2014). ...
Reference: Llamando a las puertas del Antropoceno
... The issue of a society's ability to sustain its mode and level of wealth production has been a key problem in economic theory since the early19th century. In particular, the problem of availability of natural resources (Jevons, 1865), the consequences of depletion (Stiglitz, 2015;Hotelling, 1931), restrictions on economic growth (Meadows et al., 1972), public sector deficit, payment imbalance (Feldstein, 1972); the limits of capital expansion (Domar, 1946); the efficiency of the state system of redistribution of national wealth (Kaun, 2005). ...
... Sustainability according to Donella H Meadows, et al, is an environmental condition that can last from generation to generation, not damaged either from the physical or social systems that support it (Donella H Meadows, 1992). ...
... Introduction 1 À partir des années 1990, l'avènement de la notion de développement durable et la remise en cause des indicateurs quantitatifs pour rendre compte du développement d'une communauté humaine, conduisent à une mise en débat de la notion de performance économique (Meadows et al., 1972 ;Sen, 1987 ;Daly, 1991 ;Maric, 1996). Par ailleurs, alors que le processus de mondialisation s'accentue, une partie relativement importante de la littérature traitant de la dynamique des activités économiques s'efforce de mettre en évidence le rôle des « avantages différenciatifs » localisés dans la compétitivité des régions ou des bassins d'activité, (Pecqueur, 2007) dépassant la vision centrée sur les dotations initiales. ...
... En 1972, serán Meadows D., Meadows D.L., Randers y Behrens, quienes utilicen por primer vez el término "desarrollo sostenible" en su sentido actual, detallando los problemas del crecimiento como el agotamiento de los recursos, polución (incluyendo concentración de dióxido de carbono), pérdida de tierra arable, y la declinación de la producción de comida, que derivarían en detener el progreso, pudiéndose alterar este proceso para establecer una condición de estabilidad ecológica y económica que sea sustentable [13]; y, en 1973, Daly, señala que una economía basada en el crecimiento sin fin de la producción física es imposible, y propone un crecimiento cualitativo controlado con mecanismos de mercado como altos precios, conservación, tecnología, sustitución, entre otros [14]. ...
... This is also part of the dimension of space on a human scale proposed by Le Corbusier and reworked by Heidi Weber (Weber, 2008). This notion of scale is related to the limits of economic growth proposed by the Club of Rome (Meadows et al., 1972). Meadows's book condenses the critique of productivism as limitless and the search for a model that anticipates the depletion of resources. ...
... System dynamics (SD) was developed initially by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management and the MIT System Dynamics Group in the 1960s. Among the well-known recent works on system dynamics models are the Urban Dynamics Model (Forrester, & Karnopp, 1969) and Word3 Model (Meadows, & Randers, 2009). Because system dynamics provide a clear, intuitive and dynamic reciprocal feedback between various factors in complex systems, it has been widely used in various urban planning areas such as the social economy, environmental management, transportation systems, urban energy management, sustainable development, and others. ...
... For this transition into a sustainable society, "it requires more than technology; it also requires maturity, compassion and wisdom." (Meadows et al. 1992) In order to work towards the development of a sustainable society, Environmental Education (EE) became a concern of numerous countries. This has lead to the first Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education in Tbilisi, Georgia, which concluded the follwing definition in 1977: "Environmental Education (EE) is a learning process that increases people's knowledge and awareness about the environment and its associated challenges, develops the necessary skills and expertise to address the challenges, and fosters attitudes, motivations, and commitments to make informed decisions and take responsible action" (UNESCO and UNEP 1977). ...
