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Donella Meadows
Thinking in Systems; leverage points.
Donella 'Dana' Meadows (1941–2001) was a professor at Dartmouth College and founder of the Sustainability Institute. She co-authored 'The Limits to Growth' (1972) and wrote the posthumously published primer 'Thinking in Systems'. Her essay 'Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System' remains a foundational reference in systems practice.
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