Peace Award Given to UNH Professor Emeritus
By Jody Record, Media Relations
December 5, 2007
Dennis Meadows, professor emeritus of systems policy and social science research
at UNH, has been awarded the Berlin Peace Clock Award.
Meadows has also been a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Dartmouth College and served as director of various public policy institutes.
He has also received the Hungarian Presidential Medal for contributions to
international understanding and democracy and the Bellagio Foundation Environmental
Education Prize.
The Berlin Peace Clock Award is given to individuals or institutions around
the world who “symbolize hope and help to overcome walls dividing classes,
races, peoples, nations, cultures, religions, ideologies, parties and human
beings from one another.”
They have been given to Pope John Paul, Mother Teresa and George H.W. Bush.
In 1972, Meadows and several co-authors published “The Limits to Growth” which
discusses the consequences of an explosive world population and a finite amount
of resources. The book was updated in 2004.
In his speech commending Meadows on winning the prestigious award, Achim Steiner,
United Nations Undersecretary General and executive director of United Nations
Environmental Program, said “When Limits to Growth was penned, the world
was living within its means. In 2007 it has become clear that we are now living
beyond our means and that the future stability of our planet is now in jeopardy.”
Meadows, who lives in Durham, is co-founder of the Balaton Group, a network
of 300 professionals in more than 30 nations involved in systems science, public
policy and sustainable development. He has written and co-authored 10 books,
which have been translated into more than 30 languages, on systems, futures,
and educational games.
He holds a Ph.D. in management from MIT and four honorary doctorates from
European universities.
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