Jared Diamond

One of the most comprehensive works on historical cases of societal collapse is Jared Diamond’s book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

Joseph Tainter

In 1988, Joseph Tainter published a fundamental study on the collapse of societies, proposing the existence of a common cause, diminishing returns, for the fact that all past empires and civilizations had eventually collapsed.

Jared Diamond , author of the compelling best-seller Guns, Germs, and Steel,

Jared Diamond, author of the compelling best-seller Guns, Germs, and Steel, makes this argument in Barbara Katz Rothman's new Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

Diamond

Diamond, of course, is the author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail of Succeed, a book that illustrated, in excruciating detail, the myriad varieties of blindness that human societies have over the years chosen over what we might call environmental realism.

The American geographer , evolutionary biologist and physiologist Jared Diamond (1937- )

The American geographer, evolutionary biologist and physiologist Jared Diamond (1937- ) already evoked the theme of civilizational collapse in Cyclone Idai's book called Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, published in 2005.

Jarrod Diamond

As Jarrod Diamond illustrated so effectively in Jarrod Diamond's book Collapse, complex societies in the past have almost all imploded as a result of the natural environment surrounding them being used up.

Jarred Diamond

In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, Jarred Diamond discusses the dangers of continued exploitation and the outcomes for societies that could not change their behaviour patterns: certain extinction.

Diamonds’ new book

Diamonds’ new book is titled 'Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

a rather negativebook review : ... () Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire - a critique of Curbing Catastrophe's own book - for Nature of Questioning Collapse

A few weeks ago, Jared Diamond, author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, wrote a (rather negative) book review of Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire - a critique of Curbing Catastrophe's own book - for Nature... without mentioning that Questioning Collapse was, well, questioning Collapse.

Karen Robinson's 2005 book, Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, Jared Diamond, an American polymathic geographer and anthropologist

In Karen Robinson's 2005 book, Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, Jared Diamond, an American polymathic geographer and anthropologist, describes a range of cultures and societies from modern USA, back through medieval and iron-age Viking Greenland, to the ancient statute-carving Polynesians of Easter Island, and examines the critical steps each takes that led to the collapse of the ancient statute-carving Polynesians's societies.

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How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, a 2005 book by Jared Diamond

Jered Diamond

Several years later, in 2005, Jered Diamond, in Jered Diamond's book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, used the example of Lingchi to explain the concept of "creeping normality.

about ways in which former societies collapsed

What does the writer say about ways in which former societies collapsed?

“Collapse: ”

That Jared Diamond book was “Collapse: How Society’s Choose to Succeed or Fail”.

by Jeffrey Diamond

Some of you may recall the book “Collapse” by Jeffrey Diamond and recall how Jeffrey Diamond used Rapa Nui as a blueprint or roadmap to societal implosion, all of which seems all too relevant and most valuable in these current times.

Inveterate birder and award-winning reporter Frances Cairncross's books

Inveterate birder and award-winning reporter Frances Cairncross's books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel and Steel's bestselling followup, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

the writer

What does the writer say about ways in which former societies collapsed?

Jerrod Diamond

And of course, Jerrod Diamond wrote “Collapse” a few years ago, which should be read by everyone, imho..

writers as varied as Isaac Asimov, Richard Posner, and

In recent decades, writers as varied as Isaac Asimov, Richard Posner, and Jared Diamond have authored tomes on societal or civilizational collapse.

Emily St. John Mandel’s

Emily St. John Mandel’s novel about a world in the aftermath of a devastating epidemic and societal collapse, which somehow managed to be haunting and distressing and urgently entertaining all at once.