Club of Rome

The Club of Rome is a non-profit organization that operates a global exchange of ideas on various international issues. The report, published in 1972 The Limits to Growth, he gained great worldwide attention. The organization had its headquarters since its founding in Hamburg and moved him on 1 July 2008 to Winterthur.

  • 8.1 Board of Directors
  • 8.2 Management
  • 8.3 Think Tank 30 of the German Association for the Club of Rome ( tt30 Germany )

History

The club was founded in 1968. The idea comes from the Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei, a former member of the company's management of Fiat and Olivetti and president of the consulting company Italconsult, and the Scot Alexander King, Director of Science, Technology and Education at the Paris Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD). They managed to organize a conference on the future of humankind in the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, but did not lead to the desired success. Aurelio Peccei, Alexander King, Hugo Thiemann, Max Kohnstamm, Jean Saint- Geours and Erich Jantsch: After the end of the conference, six of the participants met. The group decided to pursue their ideas and took the name " Club of Rome ".

In 1973, the Club of Rome, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade is still the only organization rather than an individual.

Members Choice

  • The club should be multinational and multicultural; all cultures, ideologies, professions and scientific disciplines should be represented.
  • Members are selected economists, industrialists, scientists and other public figures.
  • We distinguish between active, associate, honorary and institutional members. The number of active members is limited to 100; currently there are 66 full members. A high-level political office closes from an active membership.
  • Applications for membership are possible but not common; Model is the principle of scientific academies (see co-option ).

Members of the Club of Rome International

  • List of members of the Club of Rome

President

Goal / objective

The common goal of all club members is formulated as follows: " Our goal is a shared concern and responsibility to and for the future of humanity " In addition, the Club of Rome sets a target "building a global society in the 21st century" and "Global Governance ". To achieve its objectives in the formation of the "Global Society ", is the Club of Rome on the education of the young generation. Thus, in many countries all-day schools are set up with as many outside the school - are networked at home and abroad - companies, associations and universities. The new schools are to develop into with their respective school profile in the concept of the Club of Rome Schools. They are advised by an experienced school coach of the Club of Rome and accompanied. For individual subjects specialists are consulted. After a successful conversion, these schools received the quality seal " Club of Rome " school.

Action and effect

The Club of Rome made ​​his first public appearance in 1972 with the appointed by him study The Limits to Growth, which had been prepared under the direction of Dennis and Donella Meadows. This study is the first of the System Dynamics methodology was created to forecast the future development of the world under different scenarios using.

Since 1972, in addition to other publications 33 so-called "Reports to the Club of Rome " was adopted to deal with various issues, especially in terms of future development. The reports are written by outside experts or members of the club, for peer review and accepted as a report or rejected. However, they are not written or edited by the Club as an organization.

The Club of Rome is co-initiator of the initiative for a Global Marshall Plan.

Published studies

  • The Limits To Growth, Dennis L. Meadows et al, 1972. ( German: The Limits to Growth, 1972, ISBN 3-421-02633-5 )
  • Rio Report: Reshaping The International Order Jan Tinbergen et. al. 1,976
  • Goals For Mankind, Ervin László et al., 1977
  • Beyond The Age Of Waste, Dennis Gabor et al., 1978
  • Energy: The Countdown, Thierry de Montbrial, 1978
  • No Limits To Learning, J. Botkin, M. Elmandjra, M. Malitza, 1978 ( German: Opportunities for the Future Learning, 1979, ISBN 3-442-11289-3 )
  • Tiers- Monde, Trois Quarts Du Monde, Maurice Guernier, 1980
  • Dialogue On Wealth And Welfare - An Alternative View Of World Capital Formation, Orio Giarini, 1980
  • Roadmaps To The Future. Towards More Effective Societies, Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, 1980
  • Microelectronics And Society: For Better And For Worse, A. Schaff & G. Friedrichs, 1982
  • The Future Of The Oceans, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 1986
  • Le Tiers Monde Peut Se Nourrir, René Lenoir, 1984
  • The Barefoot Revolution, Bertrand Schneider, 1988
  • Beyond The Limits To Growth, Eduard Pestel, 1989
  • The Limits to Certainty, Orio Giarini & Walter R. Stahel, 1989/93
  • Africa Beyond Famine, Aklilu Lemma Malaska & Pentti, 1989
  • The First Global Revolution, Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, 1991
  • The Capacity To Govern, Yehezkel Dror, 1994 & 2001
  • The Scandal And The Shame: Poverty And Under Development, Bertrand Schneider, 1995
  • Taking Nature Into Account: Towards A Sustainable National Income, Wouter van Dieren, 1995, ISBN 978-0-387-94533-0
  • A factor of four. Doubling Wealth - Halving Resource Use, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker et al, 1995/96/97, ISBN 3-426-26877-9.
  • The Limits Of Social Cohesion: Conflict And Understanding In A Pluralistic Society, Peter L. Berger, 1997; dt as: The boundaries of the community. Conflict and mediation in pluralist societies. ISBN 3-89204-818-5
  • How will we work, Orio Giarini & Patrick Liedtke, 1998
  • The Oceanic Circle: Governing the Seas As A Global Resource, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 1998
  • On the net: The hypnotized society, Juan Luis Cebrian, 1999
  • Humanity wins, Reinhard Mohn, 2000, ISBN 3-89204-482-1
  • The art of networked thinking, Frederic Vester, 2002
  • The Double Helix Of Learning And Work, Orio Giarini / Mircea Malitza, 2003
  • Limits of privatization: when is overdo, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker et al, 2005/06, ISBN 3-7776-1444-0? .
  • The Population Blow Up and After, Sergey P. Kapitza, 2006 Report to the Club of Rome and the Global Marshall Plan Initiative
  • 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, Jorgen Randers, 2012; dt as: 2052 The new report to the Club of Rome, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86581-398-5.
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