num_pages: 752
description: Libro fundamental lleno de datos e ideas originales sobre la desaparición de grandes civilizaciones como los incas o los habitantes de la Isla de Pascua. El autor expone los principales problemas a los que se enfrenta la humanidad. "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: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen
titlecomplete: Colapso: Por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen
genres: Anthropology, Social Science, Politics, Environment, Science, Nonfiction, Economics, Sociology, History, Society
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: Debolsillo