Dennis L. Meadows

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Dennis Meadows at one of the mansion symposia of the Volkswagen Foundation

Dennis Meadows (* 7. June 1942 in Montana ) is a US -American economist . His first wife was Donella H. Meadows .

life and work

Meadows grew up in Rochester , Minnesota . He studied chemistry at Carleton College in the same state , where he graduated in June 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts . In 1963 and 1964 he worked at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, which was then under the US Department of Energy . His management studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from his doctoral joined it. He was the director of three university research organizations, MIT, Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire . He also worked as a professor at various faculties: engineering, management and social sciences. Other focal points were team building and system thinking for managers and politicians. Today he is emeritus and director of the Laboratory of Interactive Learning in New Hampshire.

Dennis L. Meadows, 2004.

Using a computer-aided simulation Meadows determined in his from the Club of Rome commissioned study The Limits to Growth (1972, English title The Limits to Growth ) system behavior of the earth as an economic area by the year 2100. coauthors was his wife Donella H. Meadows and Norwegian Jørgen Randers . The model used took into account a large number of known relationships between the parameters and time delays between causes and effects. Five different scenarios showed that with current economic and population growth due to food shortages, environmental pollution and scarcity of raw materials , the world economy will collapse before the year 2100 . As a result, prosperity will decline massively and food for the world's population can no longer be secured. Long-term stability of the world economy can only be achieved through massive efforts, particularly in birth control and environmental protection, as well as through economical raw material cycles. The study was updated by Meadows and his co-authors in 1992 and 2004, respectively.

Meadows has been designing board games since 1982, with which thinking in terms of sustainability can be studied. One of the best known is Fishbanks Ltd.

Meadows is a member of the Club of Vienna and co-founder of the Balaton Group . In 1975 he was honored with the Bavarian Nature Conservation Prize, on November 7, 2007 with the Berlin Peace Watch Prize , and on April 23, 2009 with the Japan Prize .

After his retirement, Meadows now lives with his second wife in New Hampshire.

Publications

literature

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Web links

Commons : Dennis Meadows  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bund Naturschutz in Bayern: The Limits to Growth ( Memento from May 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Meadows, Dennis L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Montana