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050	0	0	_aHN13 _b.D53 2011
100	1		_aDiamond, Jared M., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCollapse : _bhow societies choose to fail or succeed / _cJared Diamond.
264	1		_aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c2011
264	4		_a©2011
300			_axii, 589 pages, [24] pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
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650		0	_aSocial history _vCase studies.
650		0	_aSocial change _vCase studies.
650		0	_aEnvironmental policy _vCase studies.
900			_aMEF Üniversitesi Kütüphane katalog kayıtları RDA standartlarına uygun olarak üretilmektedir / MEF University Library Catalogue Records are Produced Compatible by RDA Rules
910			_aPandora
942			_2lcc _cBKS _02
970	0	1	_aList of maps, _pxiii.
970	1	2	_tPrologue: a tale of two farms, _p1.
970	1	1	_tTwo farms. Collapses, past and present. Vanished Edens? A five-point framework. Businesses and the environment. The comparative method. Plan of the book.
970	1	2	_tPart one: Mondern montana, _p25.
970	1	2	_tChapter 1: Under Montana's big sky, _p27.
970	1	1	_tStan 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.
970	1	2	_tPart two: Past societies, _p77.
970	1	2	_tChapter 2: Twilight at easter, _p79.
970	1	1	_tThe 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.
970	1	2	_tChapter 3: The last people alibe: pitcairn and Henderson islands, _p120.
970	1	1	_tPitcairn before the bounty. Three dissimilar islands. Trade. The movie's ending.
970	1	2	_tChapter 4: The ancient ones: the anasazi and their neighbors, _p136.
970	1	1	_tDesert farmers. Tree rings. Agricultural strategies. Chaco's problems and packrats. Regional integration. Chaco's decline and end. Chaco's message.
970	1	2	_tChapter 5: The maya collapses, _p157.
970	1	1	_tMysteries of lost cities. The maya environment. Maya agriculture. Maya history. Copan. Complexities of collapses. Wars and droughts. Collapse in the southern lowlands. The maya messages.
970	1	2	_tChapter 6: The Viking prelude and fugues.
970	1	1	_tExperiments 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.
970	1	2	_tChapter 7: Norse greenland's flowering, _p211.
970	1	1	_tEurope'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.
970	1	2	_tChapter 8: Norse greeland's end, _p248.
970	1	1	_tIntroduction to the end. Deforestation. Soil and turf damage. The innuit's predecessors. Inuit subsistence. Inuit/norse relations. The end. Ultimate causes of the end.
970	1	2	_tChapter 9: Opposite paths to success, _p277.
970	1	1	_tBottom up, top down. New Guinea highlands. Tikopia. Tokugawa problems. Tokugawa solutions. Why Japan succeded. Other successes.
970	1	2	_tPart three: Modern societies, _p309.
970	1	2	_tChapter 10: Malthus in Africa: Rwanda's genocide, _p311.
970	1	1	_tA dilemma. Events in Rwanda. More than ethnic hatred. Buildup in Kanama. Explosion in Kanama. Why it happened.
970	1	2	_tChapter 11: One island, two people, two histories: the Dominican Republic and Haiti, _p329.
970	1	1	_tDifferences. Histories. Causes of divergence. Dominican environmental impacts. Balaguer. The Dominican environment today. The future.
970	1	2	_tChapter 12: China, lurching giant, _p358.
970	1	1	_tChina's significance. Background. Air, water, soil. Habitat, species, megaproject. Consequences. Connections. The future.
970	1	2	_tChapter 13: "Mining" Australia, _p378.
970	1	1	_tAustralia's significance. Soils. Water. Distance. Early history. Imported values. Trade and immigration. Land degradation. Other environmental problems. Signs of hope and change.
970	1	2	_tPart four: practical lessons, _p417.
970	1	2	_tChapter 14: Why do some societies make disastrous decisions?, _p419.
970	1	1	_tRoad map for success. Failure to anticipate. Failure to perceive. Rational bad behavior. Disastrous values. Other irrational failures. Unsuccessful solutions. Signs of hope.
970	1	2	_tChapter 15: Big businesses and the environment: different conditions, different outcomes, _p441.
970	1	1	_tResource 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.
970	1	2	_tChapter 16: The world as a polder: what does it all mean to us today?, _p486.
970	1	1	_tIntroduction. The most serious problems. If we don't solve theem.. Life in Los Angeles. One-liner objections. The past and the present. Reasons for hope.
970	0	1	_aAfterwood: Angkor's rise and fall, _p526.
970	1	1	_tQuestions about Angkor. Angkor's environment. Angkor's rise. The great city. Magnificient engineering. Angkor's decline.
970	0	1	_aAcknowledgments, _p540.
970	0	1	_aFurther readings, _p543.
970	0	1	_aIndex, _p575.
970	0	1	_aIllustration credits, _p590.
970	0	1	_aLIST OF MAPS.
970	1	1	_tThe world: prehistoric, historic, and modern societies, _p4-5.
970	1	1	_tContemporary Montana, _p31.
970	1	1	_tThe Pacific Ocean, the Pitcairn islands, and Eastern island, _p84-85.
970	1	1	_tAnasazi sites, _p122.
970	1	1	_tMaya sites, _p142.
970	1	1	_tThe Viking expansion, _p161.
970	1	1	_tContemporary hispaniola, _p182-183.
970	1	1	_tContemporary China, _p331.
970	1	1	_tContemporary Australia, _p361.
970	1	1	_tPolitical trouble spots of the modern world; envrionmental trouble spots of the modern world, _p497.
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