Colapso: Por Qué Unas Sociedades Perduran Y Otras Desaparecen / Collapse: How So Cieties Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond se pregunta cómo unas sociedades que han desaparecido sin apenas dejar huella de su evolución han alcanzado una próspera civilización material y cultural.

A través de sus amplios conocimientos en sociología, economía, lingüística, biología o antropología, Diamond trata de explicar la desaparición de sociedades del pasado y se pregunta si podemos aprender la lección y evitar desastres parecidos en el futuro.

El punto de partida es una rigurosa investigación de los casos de culturas que no han perdurado: historias trágicas como la de los mayas, la de la Isla de Pascua o la de los indios anasazi en Norteamérica; historias menos terribles como la de Islandia o de Japón, culturas que han sabido reaccionar con éxito a desafíos ambientales; historias también de vencedores y vencidos, como el caso de la República Dominicana y de Haití, dos pueblos que a pesar de compartir el mismo medio ambiente han evolucionado de modos muy distintos, y finalmente historias aún abiertas como las de China o Australia, que están buscando soluciones innovadoras a sus desafíos ecológicos y sociales.

¿Qué lección podemos aprender del pasado? ¿Está nuestro futuro en peligro? Las respuestas que ofrece este libro no son catastróficas, pero al mismo tiempo nos advierten de la urgencia de tomar decisiones cuanto antes si queremos seguir admirando las ruinas de otros pueblos que nos han precedido.

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In 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?
About the Author: Jared Diamond (1937) es catedrático de geografía en la Universidad de California (UCLA). Comenzó su actividad científica en el campo de la fisiología evolutiva y la biogeografía. Ha sido elegido miembro de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias, de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias y de la Sociedad Filosófica de Estados Unidos, y ha recibido una beca de investigación de la Fundación MacArthur, además de los premios Burr de la Sociedad Geográfica Nacional y Pulitzer de 1998 por Armas, gérmenes y acero (1997). Ha publicado más de seiscientos artículos en las revistas Discover, Natural History, Nature y Geo. También es autor de El tercer chimpancé (1994), ¿Por qué es divertido el sexo? (1999), Colapso (2006), El mundo hasta ayer (2013) y Sociedades comparadas (Debate, 2016) grandes éxitos que han obtenido, además, numerosos galardones.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788499922676
  • Publisher: Debate
  • Publisher Imprint: Debate
  • Edition: TRA
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Por quT unas sociedades sobreviven y otras desaparecen / How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8499922678
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 752
  • Spine Width: 66 mm
  • Weight: 1183 gr


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