Donella H. Meadows

Works

• The Limits to Growth, Universe Books, with Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III, 1972
• Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, Sustainability Institute, 1999
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer, 2008

In Thinking Tools

Known for

An environmental and systems scientist, lead author of The Limits to Growth (1972), who explained stocks, flows, feedback loops, and delays for general readers and ranked twelve places to intervene in a system, from changing numbers up to changing paradigms. Thinking in Systems was published after her death, edited by Diana Wright.

Tools that draw on Donella H. Meadows (5)

• Causal Loop Diagram
• Feedback Delay Analysis
• Leverage Points
• Limits to Growth
• Stock-and-Flow Models