Donella Meadows

Person · Open Library

Works

0

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

19

Total plays

150

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Chronic Health Conditions in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer

   · 2006 · cited 3,156x

2. Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes

   · 2020 · cited 2,425x

3. The Limits to Growth: A report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind

   · 1972 · cited 2,120x

4. Discovering High-Affinity Ligands for Proteins: SAR by NMR

   · 1996 · cited 1,792x

5. Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial

   · 2021 · cited 1,539x

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Quotes

• “Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.”
• “The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological–social–psychological–economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.”
• “Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.”
• “The future can't be predicted, but it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into being. Systems can't be controlled, but they can be designed and redesigned. We can't surge forward with certainty into a world of no surprises, but we can expect surprises and learn from them and even profit from them.”
• “Before you disturb the system in any way, watch how it behaves. If it's a piece of music or a whitewater rapid or a fluctuation in a commodity price, study its beat. If it's a social system, watch it work. Learn its history.”
• “Starting with the behavior of the system forces you to focus on facts, not theories. It keeps you from falling too quickly into your own beliefs or misconceptions, or those of others.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Elgin

Place of death

Hanover

Spouse

Dennis Meadows

Occupation

chemist

Educated at

Carleton College

Employer

Dartmouth College

Languages spoken

English language

Award

MacArthur Fellows Program

Notable work

The Limits to Growth

Academic degree

doctorate

Field of work

natural environment

Image

Rue Albert-Thomas Donella Meadows.jpg

Residence

Plainfield

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