9780713992861 - collapse: how societies choose to fail or survive von diamond, jared (12 Ergebnisse)
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Verlag: Allen Lane 17/01/2005, 2005
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Verlag: Allen Lane, 2005
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Allen Lane, 2005
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Verlag: Allen Lane, 2005
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Unknown, 2005
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: London: Penguin Books, 2005
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. First Edition. XI, 575 p. leichte Gebrauchsspuren am Schutzumschlag, Kopfschnitt leicht angeschmutzt, sonst guter Zustand und innen sauber, beiliegend einige Artikel zum Autor / light wear to dust jacket, top edge slightly soiled, otherwise good condition and clean inside, enclosed some…articles about the author. - New Classic / From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn, long-abandoned statues of Easter Island or to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Many cultures have disintegrated, Jared Diamond reveals, because of environmental crises - and most of these crises were self-induced. Taking us on a rich, compelling journey through history, Diamond travels the globe from Haiti to New Guinea, Iceland to the Pacific islands, to explore the fates of our ancestors. Why, he asks, did the Vikings who once colonized Greenland eventually starve or flee? Why did the Anasazi build the tallest buildings in the United States and then abandon them? Who left the strange monuments that the Bounty's mutineers discovered on the Pitcairn Islands - and why? Diamond also ranges over todays world: how the tiny island Tikopia has thrived against all odds for thousands of years; why the big- sky country of Montana is a ticking ecological time-bomb; and what role todays big business conglomerates have to play. Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Collapse also shows how, unlike our ancestors, we can benefit from our knowledge of the past - and learn to be survivors. / CONTENTS List of Maps Prologue: A Tale of Two Farms Two farms Collapses, past and present Vanished Edens? A five-point framework Businesses and the environment The comparative method Plan of the book PartOne: MODERN MONTANA Chapter 1: Under Montanas Big Sky Stan Falkows story Montana and me Why begin with Montana? Montanas economic history Mining Forests Soil Water Native and non-native species Differing visions Attitudes towards regulation Rick Laibles story Chip Pigmans story Tim Hulss story John Cooks story Montana, model of the world PartTwo: PAST SOCIETIES Chapter 2: Twilight at Easter The quarrys mysteries Easters geography and history People and food Chiefs, clans, and commoners Platforms and statues Carving, transporting, erecting The vanished forest Consequences for society Europeans and explanations Why was Easter fragile? Easter as metaphor Chapter 3: The Last People Alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands Pitcairn before the Bounty Three dissimilar islands Trade The movies ending Chapter 4: The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors Desert farmers Tree rings Agricultural strategies Chacos problems and packrats Regional integration Chacos decline and end Chacos message Chapter 5: The Maya Collapses Mysteries of lost cities The Maya environment * Maya agriculture Maya history Copan Complexities of collapses Wars and droughts Collapse in the southern lowlands The Maya message Chapter 6: The Viking Prelude and Fugues Experiments in the Atlantic The Viking explosion Autocatalysis Viking agriculture Iron Viking chiefs Viking religion Orkneys, Shetlands, Faeroes Icelands environment Icelands history Iceland in context Vinland Chapter 7: Norse Greenlands Flowering Europes outpost Greenlands climate today Climate in the past Native plants and animals Norse settlement Farming Hunting and fishing An integrated economy Society Trade with Europe Self-image Chapter 8: Norse Greenlands End Introduction to the end Deforestation Soil and turf damage The Inuits predecessors Inuit subsistence Inuit/Norse relations The end Ultimate causes of the end Chapter 9: Opposite Paths to Success Bottom up, top down New Guinea highlands Tikopia Tokugawa problems Tokugawa solutions Why Japan succeeded Other successes Part Three: MODERN SOCIETIES Chapter 10: Malthus in Africa: Rwandas Genocide A dilemma Events in Rwanda More than ethnic hatred Buildup in Kanama Explosion in Kanama Why it happened Chapter 11: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories: The Dominican Republic and Haiti Differences Histories Causes of divergence Dominican environmental impacts Balaguer The Dominican environment today The future Chapter 12: China, Lurching Giant Chinas significance Background Air, water, soil Habitat, species, megaprojects Consequences Connections The future Chapter 13: Mining Australia Australias significance Soils Water Distance Early history Imported values Trade and immigration Land degradation Other environmental problems Signs of hope and change Part Four: PRACTICAL LESSONS Chapter 14: Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? Road map for success Failure to anticipate Failure to perceive Rational bad behavior Disastrous values Other irrational failures Unsuccessful solutions Signs of hope Chapte 15: Big Businesses and the Environment: Different Conditions, Different Outcomes Resource extraction Two oil fields Oil company motives Hardrock mining operations Mining company motives Differences among mining companies The logging industry Forest Stewardship Council The seafood industry Businesses and the public Chapter 16: The World as a Polder: What Does It All Mean to Us Today? Introduction The most serious problems If we dont solve them Life in Los Angeles One-liner objections The past and the present Reasons for hope. ISBN 9780713992861 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1071.
