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The Limits to Growth Revisited

“The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies no...

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Main Author: Bardi, Ugo. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Series:Energy Analysis,
Subjects:
Environmental management.
Environmental economics.
Computer simulation.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Statistical physics.
Dynamical systems.
Environmental Management.
Environmental Economics.
Simulation and Modeling.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Complex Systems.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9416-5
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The story of “The Limits to Growth”
  • 3. Of models and simulations
  • 4. System dynamics modeling
  • 5. Modeling the real world: whaling in 19th century
  • 6. World modeling by system dynamics
  • 7.  Criticism to “The Limits to Growth”
  • 8. Mineral Resources as Limits to Growth
  • 9. Technological Progress and Limits to Growth
  • 10. The Political Debate
  • 11. The Return of World Modeling
  • 12. Conclusion: the challenges ahead
  • 13. About the author
  • 14. Acknowledgements.

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