期刊名称：Learning and teaching in higher education (LATHE)
印刷版ISSN：1742-240X
出版年度：2011
期号：5
页码：180-182
出版社：University of Gloucestershire
摘要：Donella Meadows is best known as the lead author of The Limits to Growth, the 1972 Club of Rome report on the impact of various forms of human activity on the future of humanity and the future of the planet as a whole (Meadows et al., 1972). Understanding systems was an important aspect of The Limits to Growth and it was something to which Donella Meadows devoted a significant part of her life. In 1993 Meadows completed the first draft of Thinking in Systems: a primer, but she did not go straight to publication, instead she circulated the draft for comment and discussion and continued to work on future iterations. Donella Meadows died unexpectedly in 2001 and following editorial work by Diana Wright, a colleague of Meadows from the Sustainability Institute in the USA, the book was finally published in 2009. As Wright points out in her ‘Note from the Editor’ at the start of the book ‘... her (Meadows’) writings have continued to be useful to a wide range of readers. Dana (Meadows) was a scientist and writer, and one of the best communicators in the world of systems modelling.’
