Donella Meadows

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Donella Meadows ( Donella Hager "Dana" Meadows ; born March 13, 1941 in Elgin , Illinois ; † February 20, 2001 in New Hampshire ) was an American environmental scientist and author. She was best known for the study The Limits to Growth , which she wrote with her husband Dennis Meadows and other researchers.

Life

Donella Meadows was born in Elgin in 1941. In 1963 she earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Carleton College . She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968. in the field of biophysics . She then received a research fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was the protégé of Jay Forrester , who developed system dynamics , a methodology for the holistic analysis and (model) simulation of complex and dynamic systems. Together with other scientists, she developed the World3 computer model for the Club of Rome . It formed the basis for the 1972 book The Limits to Growth , of which she was the lead author. In 1972 she began teaching at Dartmouth College as a professor.

She ran an ecological farm for 26 years . She has an eco-village and founded the Sustainability Institute in 1996 . She wrote The Global Citizen column , which appears weekly in more than 20 newspapers for 16 years . The column was nominated for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize . Together with Dennis Meadows she was the founder of the Balaton Group. In 1991 she became a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment and in 1994 she received the MacArthur Fellowship .

On February 20, 2001, Donella Meadows died of bacterial meningitis at the age of 59.

Publications

Books

  • with Dennis L. Meadows , Jørgen Randers & William W. Behrens III: The Limits to Growth . Universe Books, 1972, ISBN 0-87663-165-0
    • The limits of growth. Report of the Club of Rome on the State of Humanity. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-421-02633-5 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1973, ISBN 3-499-16825-1
  • with Dennis L. Meadows: Toward Global Equilibrium. Wright-Allen Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1973
    • The global balance. Model studies on the growth crisis. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-421-02658-0
  • with William W. Behrens III, Dennis L. Meadows, Roger F. Naill, Jørgen Randers & Erich KO Zahn : The Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World. Wright-Allen Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1974, ISBN 0960029443
  • with John M. Richardson & Gerhart Bruckmann : Groping in the Dark: The First Decade of Global Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1982
  • Harvesting One Hundredfold: Key Concepts and Case Studies in Environmental Education. UNEP, Nairobi 1989
  • The Global Citizen. Island Press , 1991, ISBN 978-1559630580
  • with Dennis L. Meadows & Jørgen Randers: Beyond the limits. Global collapse or a sustainable future. Earthscan Publications, 1992, ISBN 1-85383-130-1
    • The new frontiers of growth. The State of Humanity: Threat and Future Opportunities. From the American by Hans-Dieter Heck. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-421-06626-4 ; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-19510-0
  • Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development. Sustainability Institute, Hartland Four Corners 1998 ( PDF )
  • with Dennis L. Meadows & Jørgen Randers: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. Chelsea Green, 2004, ISBN 1-931498-58-X
    • Limits to Growth, the 30 Year Update. Signal to change course. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-7776-1384-0
  • Thinking in Systems. A primer. Edited by Diana Wright. Sustainability Institute, 2008, ISBN 978-1-60358-055-7
  • Donella Meadows: The limits of thinking - how we can recognize and overcome them with a system , rework. by Diana Wright with the assistance of Stephanie Weis-Gerhardt ; Oekom-Verlag, Munich, 2010

Article (selection)

  • Reckoning with Recklessness. In: Ecology Today. 1972, p. 11
  • with Dennis Meadows: Typographical Errors and Technological Solutions. In: Nature . Vol. 247, 1974, p. 97
  • Lessons from Modeling and Modelers. In: Futures. Vol. 14, No.2, April 1982

literature

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b c Donella H. Meadows: Thinking in Systems . Ed .: Diana Wright. 1st edition. Earthscan, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84407-725-0 , pp. 213 ( wtf.tw [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Alan AtKisson, Joan Davis: Donella Meadows, lead author of 'The Limits to Growth', has died . In: Ecological Economics . tape 38 , no. 2 , August 2001, p. 165-166 , doi : 10.1016 / S0921-8009 (01) 00208-7 .
  3. ↑ Newspapers in which "The Global Citizen" appeared ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sustainer.org
personal data
SURNAME Meadows, Donella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meadows, Donella Hager; Meadows, Donella H .; Meadows, Dana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American environmental scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Elgin (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2001
Place of death New Hampshire