Collapse
Subtitle: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Edition: First edition edition
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780670033379
Subjects: Social Science; Sociology; Public Policy - Environmental Policy; General; History - General History; Social history; Social conditions; Social Change; Civilization; Historical Geography; World - General; History / Social History; Environmental Policy; Case studies
First sentence: A few summers ago I visited two dairy farms, Huls Farm and Gardar Farm, which despite being located thousands of miles apart were still remarkably similar in their strengths and vulnerabilities.
Table of contents: title: Listof Maps; title: Prologue: A Tale of Two Farms; title: Part One: Modern Montana; title: Chapter 1: Under Montana's Big Sky; title: Part Two: Past Societies; title: Chapter 2: Twilight at Easter; title: Chapter 3: The Last People Alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands; title: Chapter 4: The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors; title: Chapter 5: The Maya Collapse; title: Chapter 6: The Viking Prelude and Fugues; title: Chapter 7: Norse Greenland's Flowering; title: Chapter 8: Norse Greenland's End; title: Chapter 9: Opposite Paths to Success; title: Part Three: Modern Societies; title: Chapter 10: Malthus in Africa: Rwanda's Genocide; title: Chapter 11: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories: The Dominican Republic and Haiti; title: Chapter 12: China, Lurching Giant; title: Chapter 13: "Mining" Australia; title: Part Four: Practical Lessons; title: Chapter 14: Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?; title: Chapter 15: Big Business and the Environment: Different Conditions, Different Outcomes; title: Chapter 16: The World as a Polder: What Does It All Mean to Us Today?; title: Acknowledgments; title: Further Readings; title: Index; title: Illustration Credits