Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future

by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows, Donella H. Meadows

Book Overview

Twenty years after their influential book, The Limits to Growth, was published to worldwide acclaim, the authors revise several scenarios of growth, concluding that the global industrial system has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930031555
• ISBN13: 9780930031558
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Interesting read

This is well written and informative book. One of the best things about it - is that the authors make a concerted effort to make their views and information understandable to the average person. I am not an economist, and not much of an intellectual at all but this book grabbed me, like a steven king novel, and I stayed up all night reading. Pretty amazing for a nonfiction book about economics! Like the afore mentioned novel, the book has a heartwrenching climax - and no clean and easy happy ending. (neither does King...) But how can you expect easy answers to complex problems?

An Important and Very Readable Book

This book is a must read for anyone seriously interested in global sustainability. It is clearly written and is easily accessible to non-technical readers. Although based on a sophisticated computer model, the authors avoid presenting a dry, scientific explanation of the simulation -- equations and mathematical formulations are deemphasized. Instead, the authors refer the technically-minded to an earlier book (Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World, available at www.pegasuscom.com) that contains every equation used in the model. Moreover, Prof. Meadows makes the model itself available to anyone interested (for a nominal fee).So read this book. Then, if you want more detail, get the model and technical book.