American environmental scientist and systems thinker who co-authored The Limits to Growth (1972) and wrote Thinking in Systems (published posthumously 2008) — the most accessible introduction to systems thinking — who spent her career analyzing complex systems from global ecology to local agriculture.
Created the most accessible framework for systems thinking — Thinking in Systems' concepts (stocks and flows, feedback loops, delays, leverage points) gave non-engineers the vocabulary to understand why complex systems behave the way they do and where interventions have the most impact.
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