| Description |
1 online resource (443 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Authors -- Introduction -- Section 1 Theory and Insights of Historical Collapse -- Chapter 1 Globalization and Fragility: A Systems Approach to Collapse -- Chapter 2 How Scholars Explain Collapse -- Chapter 3 Diminishing Returns on Extraction: How Inequality and Extractive Hierarchy Create Fragility -- Chapter 4 Collapse, Recovery, and Existential Risk -- Section 2 Historical and Archaeology Investigations of Collapse |
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Chapter 5 "Mind the Gap": The 1177 BCE Late Bronze Age Collapse and Some Preliminary Thoughts on Its Immediate Aftermath -- Chapter 6 The End of "Peak Empire": The Collapse of the Roman, Han, and Jin Empires -- Chapter 7 Collapse and Non-collapse: The Case of Byzantium ca. 650-800 CE -- Chapter 8 Fluctuat Nec Mergitur: Seven Centuries of Pueblo Crisis and Resilience -- Chapter 9 Episodes of the Feathered Serpent: Aztec Imperialism and Collapse -- Chapter 10 The Black Death: Collapse, Resilience, and Transformation |
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Chapter 11 The Cases of Novgorod and Muscovy: Using Systems Thinking to Understand Historical Civilizational Response to Exogenous Threats -- Chapter 12 Resilience of the Simple?: Lessons from the Blockade of Leningrad -- Section 3 Systemic Collapse Insights from Ecology, Climate, and the Environment -- Chapter 13 Climate Change and Tipping Points in Historical Collapse -- Chapter 14 Conservation of Fragility and the Collapse of Social Orders -- Chapter 15 Resilience and Collapse in Bee Societies and Communities -- Section 4 Future Systemic Collapse and Quantitative Modeling |
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Chapter 16 Producing Collapse: Nuclear Weapons as Preparation to End Civilization -- Chapter 17 From Wild West to Mad Max: Transition in Civilizations -- Chapter 18 Phase Transitions and the Theory of Early Warning Indicators for Critical Transitions -- Chapter 19 The Lifespan of Civilizations: Do Societies "Age," or Is Collapse Just Bad Luck? -- Chapter 20 Multipath Forecasting: The Aftermath of the 2020 American Crisis -- Index |
| Summary |
As our society confronts climate change, authoritarianism, and epidemics, what can examples from the past tell us about our present and future? This book studies societies that either collapsed or overcame cataclysmic adversity, tracing patterns, strategies, and early warning signs that can inform decision making today |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Disasters -- History
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Emergency management -- History
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Emergency management -- Decision making
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Social systems -- History
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Disasters
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Emergency management
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Emergency management -- Decision making
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Social systems
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Callahan, Peter W
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Larcey, Paul A
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Patterson, Thayer S
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| ISBN |
1000829693 |
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9781000829693 |
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