Bøker:
2052 - A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, Vermont 2012
Limits to Growth - The 30 Year Update
with D.H. Meadows and D.L. Meadows, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, Vermont 2004
Beyond the Limits
with D.H. Meadows, D.L. Meadows, Chelsea Green Publishing House, Post Mills, Vermont 1992
Elements of the System Dynamics Method
Editor, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1980
Wood Resource Dynamics in the Scandinavian Forest Sector
editor with L. Lønnstedt, Studia Forestalia Suecia No. 152, Stockholm 1979
Smelteverkene i smeltedigelen
with L. Ervik, C. Tank‑Nielsen, D. Nunn, J.W. Cappelens forlag, Oslo 1979
Skognæringen i overgangsalderen
with L. Stenberg, K. Kalgraf, J.W. Cappelens Forlag, Oslo 1978
The Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World
with D.H. Meadows, D.L. Meadows, W.W. Behrens, R.F. Naill and E.K.O. Zahn, Wright‑Allen Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1974
The Limits to Growth
with D.H. Meadows, D.L. Meadows and W.W. Behrens, Universe Books, New York 1972
Artikler:
“The One Degree War Plan”
with Paul Gilding
Journal of Global Responsibility, Vol 1 No 1, 2010
“Global Collapse – Fact or Fiction?”
Fut
ures, Vol 40, No 10, December 2008, pp 853 – 864
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2008.07.042
”Et forslag til byrdefordeling i post-Kyoto avtale” (”A proposed burden sharing for the post-Kyoto agreement”)
with Bjart Holtsmark, Klima, No 6, Dec 2008, pp14-15
& ldquo;Fremtidsbilde 2030: Er ver den flat?” (“Scenario 2030: Is the world flat?”)
with A. J. Isac hsen, Magma, Vol 10, No 1, pp 51-57, 2007
“Forecasting Turning Points in Shipping Freight Rates: Lessons from 30 Years of Practical Effort”, with U. Goluke, System Dynamics Review, Vol 23, No 2-3, Summer/Fall 2007
“How Can Norway Become a Climate-Friendly Society?”
with K. Alfsen, World Economics, Vol 8, No 1, Jan-Mar 2007
journal.com/Contents/WordSearchResults.aspx?WordSearched=Randers+Alfsen
“The Living Planet Index: using species population time series to track trends in biodiversity”
with J. Loh et al, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 360, pp 289 - 295, February 2005
“Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy”
with M. Wackernagel et al, Proceedings of the (US) National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 44, No. 14, pp 9266 - 9271, July 2002
“From Limits to Growth to Sustainable Development”
System Dynamics Review, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Fall 2000), pp 213-224
"The Living Planet Report"
with J. Loh et al, WWF, Gland, Switzerland 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004
“Depressing Trends”
in Helen de Mattos-Shipley (ed), WWF Changing Worlds, Banson, London 1996
"The Quest for a Sustainable Society - A Global Perspective"
in G. Skirbekk, editor, The Notion of Sustainability, Scandinavian University Press, Oslo 1994
"The Public Management of Forestry Projects"
with H. Gregersen, J. Montgolfier, L. Ferrer-Martin, OECD, Paris 1986
"Guidelines for Model Conceptualization"
in B.W. Hennestad and F.E. Wenstøp, editor, Bedriftsøkonomi og Vitenskapsteori (Management and Theory of Science), Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1983
"Den norske næringsstruktur i fremtiden" (Norway's Economic Structure in t he Future)
Bergen Bank Kvartalsskrift, No. 1, 1981
"National Strategies to Limit the Industrial Use of Wood to the Sustainable Forest Growth "
with J. Høstel and an d L. Lønnstedt, Journal of Business Administration, Vol. 11, No. 1 & 2, Fall 1979/Spring 1980
"Den unødvendige arbeidsløsheten" (The Unnecessary Unemployment)
with J.W. Nilsson, in Arbeid og Inntekt (Employment and Income), Tiden Norsk Forlag, Oslo 1980
"Watch for the Foothills: Signalling the End to Growth in a Finite World"
with W.W. Behrens, in David W. Orr and Marvin S. Soroos, The Global Predicament: Ecological Perspectives on World Order, The University of North Carolina Press 1979
"Petroleum: Norwegian Experience and Third World Policy"
Jamaica Journal, No. 43, pp. 69‑76, 1979
"Transition Strategies for the Forest Sector"
with L. Lønnstedt, Futures, Vol 11, No. 3, June 1979
"Den globale økonomiske utvikling på 10‑15 års sikt"
(The Global Economy of the Next 10‑15 Years) , Bergen Bank Kvartalsskrift No. 4, 1978
"How to be a Useful Builder of Simulation Models", in J. Rose (ed.)
Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems, Springer, New York 1978
"How to Stop Industrial Growth with Minimal Pain"
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol 11, p. 371, 1978
"A System Dynamics Study of the Transition from Ample to Scarce Wood Resources"
Proceedings of the XVI International Union of Forest Research Orqanizations'
World Congress, Oslo
Andre publikasjoner (utvalgte):
“Hvorfor bør Norge gå foran?”
in Eivind Trædal (ed), Flere sider mot saken, Natur og Ungdom, Oslo 2010
"Et klimavennlig Norge”, utvalgsleder (Commission chair), NOU 2006:18 (Norwegian government white book No 18, 2006), Oslo
“Will the global oil production ever decline? If so, when and why?”
Offshore Northern Seas Conference, Stavanger 2000
“Hvilke potensielle gevinster får samfunnet av bedriftenes øko-effektive handlinger”
i Bærekraftig utvikling – Økoeffektivitet og industriell utvikling, Norges Forskningsråd, Oslo 2000
"Opprustning innenlands eller satsing ute"
i Morten Møller Warmedal (ed), Utlandet Kaller, Lex, Oslo 1999
"Siviløkonomer og fremtiden"
i Norske Siviløkonomer gjennom 50 år, NSF, Oslo 1989