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Dennis Lynn Meadows (born June 7, 1942) is an American scientist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Management, and former director of the Institute for Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire.
Professor Emeritus and Director, Institute for Policy and Social Science, University of New Hampshire. Member of the faculty: 1969-72, MIT; 1972-88, Dartmouth College; 1988-2004, University of New Hampshire; in each institution, directed centres for policy on economic and environmental issues.
Professor Dennis Meadows did say this almost forty years ago as a co-author of the iconic The Limits to Growth, along with the late Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William H. Behrens III. The contested response led this book to be one of the most controversial and influential in environmental circles.
Aug 10, 2022 · The Limits to Growth. That work which, as early as 1972, gave a clear warning that the planet had limits and little time to face them. For this reason, one of the main authors, Dennis Meadows, has been giving interviews to some of the most important media in the world, such as Le Monde, or the Suddeutsche Zeitung.
Now, in 2022, the Club of Rome have brought two of the original authors from the 1972 book, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers, along with an array of other world renowned thinkers, scientists, analysts and economists from across the globe to answer these questions and grapple with the most acute issue of our time.
Feb 24, 2022 · A half-century ago, the worlds of science, public policy, and economics were rocked by a prominent book, The Limits to Growth, authored by four systems scientists (Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William Behrens III) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
A key idea in The Limits to Growth is the notion that if the rate of resource use is increasing, the number of reserves cannot be calculated by simply taking the current known reserves and dividing them by the current yearly usage, as is typically done to obtain a static index.
