Donella Meadows

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. It was. Mainly known through the study The Limits to Growth, which she wrote with her husband, Dennis Meadows and other researchers

Life

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

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

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

Publications

  • Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William W. Behrens III: The Limits to Growth. Universe Books, 1972, ISBN 0-87663-165-0 The Limits to Growth. Report of the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-421-02633-5; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1973, ISBN 3-499-16825-1
  • The global balance. Model studies on the growth crisis. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-421-02658-0
  • The new frontiers of growth. The state of humanity: Threats and opportunities for the future. From the American Hans -Dieter Heck. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-421-06626-4; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-19510-0
  • Limits to Growth, the 30-year update. Signal to change course. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-7776-1384-0

Articles (Selection )

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