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Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
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Prologue : a tale of two farms
Pt. 1. Modern Montana
Ch. 1. Under Montana's big sky
Pt. 2. Past societies
Ch. 2. Twilight at Easter
Ch. 3. last people alive : Pitcairn and Henderson Islands
Ch. 4. ancient ones : the Anasazi and their neighbors
Ch. 5. Maya collapses
Ch. 6. Viking prelude and fugues
Ch. 7. Norse Greenland's flowering
Ch. 8. Norse Greenland's end
Ch. 9. Opposite paths to success
Pt. 3. Modern societies
Ch. 10. Malthus in Africa : Rwanda's genocide
Ch. 11. One Island, two peoples, two histories : the Dominican Republic and Haiti
Ch. 12. China, lurching giant
Ch. 13. "Mining" Australia
Pt. 4. Practical lessons
Ch. 14. Why do some societies make disastrous decisions?
Ch. 15. Big businesses and the environment : different conditions, different outcomes
Ch. 16. world as a polder : what does it all mean to us today?
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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 Modern Montana Under Montana's big sky Stan Falkow's story Montana and me Why begin with Montana? Montana's economic history Mining Forests Soil Water Native and non-native species Differing visions Attitudes towards regulation Rick Laible's story Chip Pigman's story Tim Huls's story John Cook's story Montana, model of the world
Past societies Twilight at Easter The quarry's mysteries Easter's 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 The last people alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands Pitcairn before the Bounty Three dissimilar islands Trade The movie's ending The ancient ones: the Anasazi and their neighbors Desert farmers Tree rings Agricultural strategies Chaco's problems and packrats Regional integration Chaco's decline and end Chaco's message The Maya collapses Mysteries of lost cities The Maya environment Maya agriculture Maya history Copán Complexities of collapses Wars and droughts Collapse in the southern lowlands The Maya message The Viking prelude and fugues Experiments in the Atlantic The Viking explosion Autocatalysis Viking agriculture Iron Viking chiefs Viking religion Orkneys, Shetlands, Faeroes Iceland's environment Iceland's history Iceland in context Vinland Norse Greenland's flowering Europe's outpost Greenland's 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 Norse Greenland's end Introduction to the end Deforestation Soil and turf damage The Inuit's predecessors Inuit subsistence Inuit/Norse relations The end Ultimate causes of the end Opposite paths to success Bottom up, top down New Guinea highlands Tikopia Tokugawa problems Tokugawa solutions Why Japan succeeded Other successes
Modern societies Malthus in Africa: Rwanda's genocide A dilemma Events in Rwanda More than ethnic hatred Buildup in Kanama Explosion in Kanama Why it happened 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 China, lurching giant China's significance Air, water, soil Habitat, species, megaprojects Consequences Connections The future "Mining" Australia Australia's significance Soils Water Distance Early history Imported values Trade and immigration Land degradation Other environmental problems Signs of hope and change
Practical lessons
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
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
The world as a polder: what does it all mean to us today?
The most serious problems
If we don't solve them
Life in Los Angeles
One-liner objections
The past and the present
Reasons for hope.
From the Book
Prologue : a tale of two farms
Part 1: Modern Montana : Under Montana's big sky
Part 2: Past societies : Twilight at Easter
The last people alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands
The ancient ones: the Anasazi and their neighbors
The Maya collapses
The Viking prelude and fugues
Norse Greenland's flowering
Norse Greenland's end
Opposite paths to success
Part 3: Modern societies : Malthus in Africa: Rwanda's genocide
One island, two peoples, two histories: the Dominican Republic and Haiti
China, lurching giant
"Mining" Australia
Part 4: Practical lessons : Why do some societies make disastrous decisions?
Big businesses and the environment: different conditions, different outcomes
The world as a polder: what does it all mean to us today?
Afterword : Angkor's rise and fall.
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9780143036555
9780670033379
9780143117001
9780670033379
9780143117001
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