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American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in __Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,__ which seeks to understand the meaning behind the available evidence describing societies that have survived and those that have withered and died. Why, for example, did the Norsemen of Scandinavia who colonized Greenland in the early tenth century not survive, while the inhabitants of Highland New Guinea did? With the evidence to hand, Diamond notes that a society’s collapse tends to be preceded by a severe reduction in population and considerable decreases in political, economic and social complexity. Delving even deeper, Diamond isolates five major factors determine the success or failure of human societies in all periods of history: environmental degradation, which occurs when an ecosystem deteriorates as its resources are exhausted; climate change (natural or man-made); hostile neighbors; weakened trading partners; and access or otherwise to the resources that enable the society to adapt its challenges. The breadth of Diamond’s research provides the springboard from which to reach these definitions, but it inevitably also introduces compl

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Author

Rodolfo Maggio

Publisher

Macat Library

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351350310

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Science, Anthropology