Donella Meadows

En los años posteriores a su papel como autora principal del bestseller internacional,‘’Límites del crecimiento’, el primer libro que muestra las consecuencias del crecimiento descontrolado en un pla

Cet ouvrage concis et crucial extrait la pensée systémique du domaine informatique et mathématique pour la rendre tangible et concrète. Car certains des plus grands problèmes actuels sont essentielle

Cet ouvrage concis et crucial extrait la pensée systémique du domaine informatique et mathématique pour la rendre tangible et concrète. Car certains des plus grands problèmes actuels sont essentielle

The classic book on systems thinkingwith more than half a million copies sold worldwide!This is a fabulous book This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing.ForbesA modern classicThe New YorkerIn the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growththe first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planetDonella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institutes Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.Some of the biggest problems facing the worldwar, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradationare essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner.In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind.Hunter Lovins

A pioneering work of science.Business Insider[This book] helped launch modern environmental computer modeling and began our current globally focused environmental debate . . . . a scientifically rigorous and credible warning.The NationIn 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global overshoot, or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update.Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet.Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth. While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes.In many ways, the message contained in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a warning. Overshoot cannot be sustained without collapse. But, as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of its damage to Earth if it takes appropriate measures to reduce inefficiency and waste.Written in refreshingly accessible prose, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a long anticipated revival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth and human development.

En los años posteriores a su papel como autora principal del bestseller internacional, Límites del crecimiento, el primer libro que muestra las consecuencias del crecimiento descontrolado en un planeta finito, Donella Meadows siguio siendo una pionera del analisis ambiental y social hasta su prematura muerte en 2001. Este manual esencial lleva el pensamiento sistemico fuera del ambito de las computadoras y las ecuaciones al mundo tangible, mostrando a los lectores como desarrollar las habilidades del pensamiento sistemico que los lideres de pensamiento de todo el mundo consideran fundamentales para la vida del siglo XXI. Algunos de los mayores problemas que enfrenta el mundo guerra, hambre, pobreza y degradacion ambiental son esencialmente fallos del sistema. No pueden resolverse arreglando una pieza de forma aislada de las demas, porque incluso los detalles aparentemente menores tienen un enorme poder para socavar los mejores esfuerzos de un pensamiento demasiado estrecho. Si bien los lectores aprenderan las herramientas conceptuales y los metodos del pensamiento sistemico, el corazon del libro es mas grandioso que la metodologia. Donella Meadows era conocida tanto por cultivar resultados positivos como por profundizar en la ciencia detras de los dilemas globales. Ella les recuerda a los lectores que presten atencion a lo que es importante, no solo a lo cuantificable, que se mantengan humildes y sigan aprendiendo. En un mundo cada vez mas complicado, abarrotado e interdependiente, Pensando en sistemas ayuda a los lectores a evitar la confusion y la impotencia, el primer paso para encontrar soluciones proactivas y eficaces.

THINKING IN SYSTEMS es un libro del autor MEADOWS, DONELLA editado por CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS. THINKING IN SYSTEMS tiene un código de ISBN 978-1-60358-055-7.

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