BERLIN, GERMANY (March 2010) How to understand complex systems and how these have an impact on our life, how to recognize when we reach the limits of our intellectual thinking, how to go beyond these limits and use that for contributing to a more sustainable world – these are the messages of Dana Meadows’ latest book: “Die Grenzen des Denken” (the German translation of Thinking in Systems). The analyses of Donella H. Meadows and her co-authors of “Limits to Growth” (1972) are still relevant for the problems of our world. Systems thinking, which was the basis of that report, is increasingly recognized as an important strategy to bring about sustainable consumption and production patterns. Systems behave similarly, root causes of current crises are complex and interlinked. In order to bring about effective strategies for change, system behavior needs to be understood. That is what this new book offers in practical, accessible language using eye-opening examples and humor.
Donella H. Meadows
Die Grenzen des Denkens
Wie wir sie mit System erkennen und überwinden können
Titel der Originalausgabe: Thinking in Systems (Chelsea Green Publishing 2008)
Translated by Karen und Hartmut Bossel,
in cooperation with Stephanie Weis-Gerhardt
oekom verlag, München
March 2010, 238 pages, 19,90 EUR
ISBN-13: 978-3-86581-199-8