| 唐尼拉米朵斯是環境科學界的先鋒，也是一位作家。在經歷短暫的細菌腦膜炎感染後，她在上星期二去世。
米朵斯女士是1972年國際暢銷書「成長的極限」的知名作者，這本書報導了全球的人口、經濟和環境的長期發展趨勢，賣出數百萬本並翻譯成28種語言。
「成長的極限」開啟了一項爭議：地球面對人類持續至今日的經濟擴張的負載力限制。米朵斯女士同時也是20年後「超越極限」一書的作者，她和Jorgen Randers共同寫作這本書，於1992年發表。
米朵斯教授，朋友和同事稱她為「唐娜」，她是最近逐漸為人所知曉的永續發展運動的領導者：領導國際間的奮鬥，企圖挽回遭到破壞的環境、經濟體和社會系統。她的努力影響了數百件的其它學界研究、政府政策和國際協議。
29年以來，米朵斯女士也在新罕布夏的達特茅斯學院裡，教授她的學生有關環境體系、倫理學及新聞學等主題。她的著作最常出現每週專欄「全球公民」， 1991年曾獲得普立茲獎提名。
1981年，米朵斯女士協同她的前任丈夫丹尼斯•米多斯，成立資源暨資訊中心的國際網絡，促成冷戰期間科學界的往來溝通。
米朵斯女士擔任這個團體的協調者18年，在這期間她建立一個全球性管道，促成從事永續發展的數百位研究者和運動份子之間的資訊分享以及合作。
在1997年，米朵斯教授成立「永續協會」，並把它形容成"think-do-tank"。這個協會將全球不同體系裡的研究和有關永續生存的實際操作範例做了結合，包括在佛蒙特州的Hartland Four Corners發展一個生態聚落及有機農場。（編按：think-do-tank 約同於非政府官方性質的政策智囊團）
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版權歸屬Environment News Service(ENS)，環境信託基金會(李瑞玉 譯，蔡麗伶 審校)
中英對照全文：http://news.ngo.org.tw/reviewer/donella/
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HANOVER, New Hampshire, February 21, 2001 (ENS) - Donella Meadows, a pioneering environmental scientist and writer, died Tuesday in New Hampshire after a brief bought with bacterial meningitis.
Meadows was best known as the lead author of the 1972 international best seller, "The Limits to Growth." The book, which reported on a study of long term global trends in population, economics and the environment, sold millions of copies and was translated into 28 languages.
"Limits to Growth" began a debate about the limits of the Earth's capacity to support human economic expansion that continues to this day. Meadows was also the lead author of the 20 year follow up study, "Beyond the Limits", published in 1992 with original co-authors Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers.
Professor Meadows, known as "Dana" to friends and colleagues, was a leading voice in what has become known as the sustainability movement, an international effort to reverse damaging trends in the environment, economy and social systems. Her work influenced hundreds of other academic studies, government policy initiatives and international agreements.
For 29 years, Meadows also taught environmental systems, ethics and journalism to her students at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Her writing appeared most often as a weekly column called "The Global Citizen," nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991.
In 1981, together with her former husband Dennis Meadows, she founded the International Network of Resource Information Centers, which built avenues of scientific communication during the Cold War.
As the group's coordinator for 18 years, Meadows helped build a global process of information sharing and collaboration among hundreds of researchers and activists in the sustainability movement.
In 1997, Professor Meadows founded the Sustainability Institute, which she described as a "think-do-tank." The Institute combines research in global systems with practical demonstrations of sustainable living, including the development of an ecological village and organic farm in Hartland Four Corners, Vermont.
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