How worlds collapse : what history, systems, and complexity can teach us about our modern world and fragile future /: what history, systems, and complexity can teach us about our modern world and fragile future. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Miguel A. Centeno, Peter W. Callahan, Paul A. Larcey, Thayer S. Patterson.
• Editors: Centeno, Miguel Angel, 1957-; Callahan, Peter; Larcey, Paul; Patterson, Thayer
• Contents: Introduction Section 1: Theory and Insights of Historical Collapse 1. Globalization and Fragility: A Systems Approach to Collapse; Miguel A. Centeno, Peter W. Callahan, Paul A. Larcey, and Thayer Patterson S. 2. How Scholars Explain Collapse; Joseph A. Tainter 3. Diminishing Returns on Extraction: How Inequality and Extractive Hierarchy Create Fragility; Luke Kemp 4. Collapse, Recovery, and Existential Risk; Haydn Belfield Section 2: Historical and Archaeological Investigations of Collapse 5. "Mind the Gap": The 1177 BCE Late Bronze Age Collapse and Some Preliminary Thoughts on Its Immediate Aftermath; Eric H. Cline 6. The End of "Peak Empire": The Collapse of the Roman, Han, and Jin Empires; Walter Scheidel 7. Collapse and Non-collapse: The Case of Byzantium ca. 650-800 CE; John Haldon 8. Fluctuat Nec Mergitur : Seven Centuries of Pueblo Crisis and Resilience; Timothy A. Kohler, R. Kyle Bocinsky, and Darcy Bird 9. Episodes of the Feathered Serpent: Aztec Imperialism and Collapse; Deborah L. Nichols, Ryan H. Collins 10. The Black Death: Collapse, Resilience, and Transformation; Samuel K. Cohn, Jr 11. The Cases of Novgorod and Muscovy: Using Systems Thinking to Understand Historical Civilizational Response to Exogenous Threats; Miriam Pollock, Benjamin D. Trump, and Igor Linkov 12. Resilience of the Simple? Lessons from the Blockade of Leningrad; Jeffrey K. Hass Section 3: Systemic Collapse Insights from Ecology, Climate, and the Environment 13. Climate Change and Tipping Points in Historical Collapse; Timothy M. Lenton 14. Conservation of Fragility and the Collapse of Social Orders; John M. Anderies and Simon A. Levin 15. Resilience and Collapse in Bee Societies and Communities; Christina M. Grozinger and Harland M. Patch Section 4: Future Systemic Collapse and Quantitative Modeling 16. Producing Collapse: Nuclear Weapons as Preparation to End Civilization; Zia Mian and Benoît Pelopidas 17. From Wild West to Mad Max: Transition in Civilizations; Richard Bookstaber 18. Phase Transitions and the Theory of Early Warning Indicators for Critical Transitions; George I. Hagstrom and Simon A. Levin 19. The Lifespan of Civilizations: Do Societies "Age, " or Is Collapse Just Bad Luck?; Anders Sandberg 20. Multipath Forecasting: The Aftermath of the 2020 American Crisis; Peter Turchin
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 426 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 363.348068; Disasters -- History; Emergency management -- History; Emergency management -- Decision making; Social systems -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000829693; 9781000829587
• Related ISBNs: 9781032363257; 9781032363219
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 9, 2023).
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