This is a primer that brings you to a tangible world and shows you how to develop systems thinking skills. The problems facing the world – war, hunger, poverty, global warming can not be solved by fixing one piece in isolation, because seemingly minor details have can have big impacts. We need to see the whole system and understand how each piece interacts. Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, which is a first step in finding solutions.

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller Limits to Growth, Donella Meadows remained at the forefront of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Long anticipated, 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.

A woman whose pioneering work in the 1970s still makes front-page news, Donella Meadows was a scientist, author, teacher, and farmer widely considered ahead of her time. She was one of the world's foremost systems analysts, winner of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, and Pulitzer Prize-nominee for her long-running newspaper column. She died unexpectedly in 2001 as she neared completion of Thinking in Systems.

This is a primer that brings you to a tangible world and shows you how to develop systems thinking skills. The problems facing the world – war, hunger, poverty, global warming can not be solved by fixing one piece in isolation, because seemingly minor details have can have big impacts. We need to see the whole system and understand how each piece interacts. Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, which is a first step in finding solutions.

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller Limits to Growth, Donella Meadows remained at the forefront of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Long anticipated, 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.

A woman whose pioneering work in the 1970s still makes front-page news, Donella Meadows was a scientist, author, teacher, and farmer widely considered ahead of her time. She was one of the world's foremost systems analysts, winner of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, and Pulitzer Prize-nominee for her long-running newspaper column. She died unexpectedly in 2001 as she neared completion of Thinking in Systems.