Author's Info Logo
HomeBooksAuthorsPublishersChallenges

    Loading banner...

    Thinking in Systems International Bestseller avatar

    Thinking in Systems International Bestseller

    Donella Meadows
    218 pages
    0 followers

    Events

    Loading events...

    Book Details

    Title

    Thinking in Systems International Bestseller

    Author(s)

    Donella Meadows

    Publisher(s)

    Chelsea Green Publishing

    Other Details

    ISBN-10

    1603580557

    ISBN-13

    9781603580557

    Publication Date

    December 5, 2008

    Binding

    Paperback

    Pages

    218

    Dimensions

    Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 0.80027801106 Pounds, Width: 0.75 Inches

    Weight

    0.80 kg

    Language

    en

    Average Rating

    0.0 / 5

    Created At

    December 11, 2025

    Updated At

    December 11, 2025

    Synopsis

    The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide!

    “This is a fabulous book… This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing.”—Forbes

    “A modern classic”—The New Yorker


    In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet—Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.

    Thinking in Systems
    is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.

    Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.

    While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner.

    In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.

    “Thinking in Systems is required reading for anyone hoping to run a successful company, community, or country. Learning how to think in systems is now part of change-agent literacy. And this is the best book of its kind.”—Hunter Lovins

    More Books By Donella Meadows

    No other books found by this author

    View All Books

    Similar Books

    Recommendations coming soon