Learning from the Past to Change Our Future
Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. By Jared Diamond . Viking Press, New York, 2005. 591 pp. $29.95, C$44. ISBN 0-670-03337-5. Examining cases such as Easter Island, the Greenland Norse, and the Classic Maya, the author provides a comparative study of the economic and social ruin that...
Published in: | Science |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2005
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1105671 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1105671 |
Summary: | Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. By Jared Diamond . Viking Press, New York, 2005. 591 pp. $29.95, C$44. ISBN 0-670-03337-5. Examining cases such as Easter Island, the Greenland Norse, and the Classic Maya, the author provides a comparative study of the economic and social ruin that occurs when societies undermine their ecological foundations. |
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