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— 17 December 2023 —

Donella Meadows recommendations for how to dance with and intervene in systems

Resilience

The list below summarizes the advice Donella Meadows was able to give after more than 30 years of working in the field of sustainability consultancy, research and education. It is an excellent set of guidelines that could help you to improve your own practice, particularly when you work in the kind of complex multi-stakeholder situations that are so commonly encountered as we try to support a systems transformation towards increased sustainability.

Daniel Christian Wahl

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