num_pages: 752
description: ¿Por qué determinadas civilizaciones sobreviven y se imponen, mientras que otras acaban desapareciendo? A partir de estudios de varios casos concretos de sociedades pasadas y presentes, Diamond describe con gran rigor y amenidad los principales problemas a que se exponen las sociedades actuales; tanto en él ámbito medioambientalcomo en los aspectos sociales y culturales. La globalización, con sus grandezas y sus miserias, plantea grandes desafíos que el autor afronta con sagacidad, espíritu crítico y optimismo."In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs &amp; Steel, Jared Diamond examined how &amp; why Western civilizations developed the technologies &amp; immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now, he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, &amp; what can we learn from their fates?" As in Guns, Germs &amp; Steel, he weaves an all-encompassing global thesis thru a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture on Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi &amp; the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, &amp; finally to the modern world, he traces a fundamental pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals our environment gives us, &amp; when we reproduce too fast or cut down too many trees. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, unstable trade partners &amp; pressure from enemies were all factors in the demise of the doomed societies, but other societies found solutions to those same problems &amp; persisted.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Colapso
titlecomplete: Colapso (Historias)
genres: Environment, Society, Nonfiction, Politics, Science, Economics, Social Science, Sociology, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 70392
series: Civilizations Rise and Fall
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Royal Society Science Book Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: California Book Award
category: Nonfiction (Silver), awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Prix du livre sur l'environnement
publisher: DEBATE