Systems Thinking for Sustainability: A Decision-Support Approach for Electrical Utility Executives Addressing Climate Change (416KB pdf), by Andrew Jones (2005)
The CDC's Diabetes Systems Modeling Project: Developing a new tool for chronic disease prevention and control (240KB pdf), by J Homer, A Jones, D Seville, J Essien, B Milstein, and D Murphy (2004). Overview of model findings and background on the model-building process.
Diabetes Systems Model Reference Guide (222KB pdf), Homer, Jones and Seville (2004). Overview of model structure and assumptions.
Commodity System Challenges: moving sustainability into the mainstream of natural resource economies (pdf 420k), a Sustainability Institute Report, April, 2003.
Action-to-Outcome Mapping: testing strategy with systems thinking (pdf 69k), by Andrew Jones and Don Seville, Systems Thinker Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2003.
Supporting Effective Participation in the Climate Change Debate: The Role of System Dynamics Simulation Modeling (pdf 62k), by Andrew Jones and Don Seville, 21 October, 2002.
Resource Sustainability In Commodity Systems: The Sawmill Industry In The Northern Forest (pdf 208k), by Andrew Jones, Don Seville, and Donella Meadows [A version of this paper appeared in System Dynamics Review Vol. 18, No. 2, (Summer 2002): 171–204.]
Commercializing Distributed Generation: A Customer-Based Collaborative Learning Project, by Andrew Horning, Don Seville, Ryan Waddington (March 26, 2002).
A research briefing to the Sustainability Consortium of the Society for Organizational Learning, Spring 2002 meeting. The SoL Sustainability Consortium brings together business leaders, consultants, and researchers who view sustainability as a key strategic issue. In this project, DTE collaborated with a number of other corporate participants to learn about the potential for distributed generation as a more sustainable energy opportunity.
Dancing With Systems, by Donella Meadows, Whole Earth, winter 2001 and The Systems Thinker, Vol. 13, No. 2 (March 2002).
Foundation Dynamics: Exploring the Leverage Points for Successfully Funding Sustainability, by the Sustainability Institute with Foundation Partners, (29 January, 2001).
Systems Thinking Primer for Natural Capitalism: The Four Basic Shifts, Peter Senge, Don Seville, Amory Lovins, and Chris Lotspeich, (Draft — September 2000).
The Shrimp Commodity System (pdf 245k), by Denise Johnston, Chris Soderquist and Donella H. Meadows, (Interim Report — July, 2000).
The Corn System Project: Defining an Economically and Ecologically Sustainable Commodity Corn System (rtf 294k), by Philip Rice, Elizabeth Sawin and Donella Meadows (Interim Report — 25 January, 2000)
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (pdf 91K), by Donella H. Meadows (1999), 19pp.
An exploration of what kinds of actions really make a difference in changing the behavior of a system.
Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development (pdf 408k), by Donella H. Meadows (1998), 78pp.
A framework for developing indicators of sustainable development, this paper outlines why indicators are important and how to go about selecting them.
Envisioning a Sustainable World (pdf 124K), by Donella H. Meadows (1994), 8pp.
This piece was
written for the Third Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics,October 24-28, 1994, San Jose, Costa Rica. A version of it was published in Getting Down to Earth, Practical Applications of Ecological Economics, edited by Robert Costanza, Olman Segura and Juan Martinez-Alier. (Island Press, Washington DC, 1996.)