The Limits to Growth Revisited

• Main Author: Bardi, Ugo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Energy,
• Subjects: Environment.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Computer simulation.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Energy industries.; Environmental management.; Environmental economics.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Economics.; Simulation and Modeling.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Energy Economics.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.

“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...