Limits to growth: The 30-year update

By Robert Costanza. 2006

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Cooperative institutions for sustainable common pool resource management: Application to groundwater (2012, background): “resource depletion, environmental degradation, and sustainable development, mainly over the last two decades (Arrow et al., 1996; Behrens et al., 2007; Callicott and Mumford, 1997; Dasgupta et al., 2000; Davis and Gartside, 2001; Dincer and Rosen, 1999; Gleick, 1998; Goodland, 1995; Hjorth and Baghe”
The growth paradox, sustainable development, and business strategy (2021, background): “The repeated confirmation of “limits to growth” studies over the past 50 years (see, e.g., Meadows & Randers, 2012) highlights the intrinsic risks of pursuing exponential growth policies.”
The management of natural resources: : An overview and research agenda (2015, background): “the impact of exploitation on natural ecosystems (Meadows et al., 2004).”
On the Cusp of Global Collapse? Updated Comparison of The Limits to Growth with Historical Data (2012, methodology): “Our ap - proach is different to the model revisions provided in Meadows et al. (1992, 2004), which recalibrate the World3 model rather than making an independent validation.”
Peak oil: The four stages of a new idea (2009, background): “If all the elements of the economy are dynamically considered [12,13], the result is that the amount of capital that can be transferred to the extraction of minerals from other sectors of the economy is limited.”
Development challenges under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)—Can renewable energy initiatives be put in place before peak oil? (2009, background): “The later report also suggested in hindsight that the past 30 years had been a lost opportunity for changing the way we organise society (Meadows et al., 2004).”
Complexity and the Economics of Climate Change: A Survey and a Look Forward (2017, positive): “6 The analysis has been subsequently updated in Meadows et al. (1992) and”
The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm? (2017, background): “Environmental problems, such as biodiversity loss, water, air, and soil pollution, resource depletion, and excessive land use are increasingly jeopardising the earth's life-support systems (Rockström et al., 2009; Jackson, 2009; Meadows et al., 2004; WWF, 2014).”
Energy and quality of life (2012, background): “Several indices, such as the human development index of the United Nations (UNDP, 2010), the human welfare index of Meadows and Randers (Meadows et al., 2004), and the quality of life index of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU, 2007) have been proposed to compare societies and to quantify their…”
Navigating towards sustainable development: A system dynamics approach (2006, background): “Nonetheless, current knowledge allows us to rule out a range of futures as unrealistic [23].”