The Collapse of Complex Societies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2573512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce G Trigger (corresponding author), Joseph A Tainter |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 374 |
| Publication date | 1989-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | L'Effondrement des Societes Complexes, Joseph A Tainter, 2013 |
| Venue | Man (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-1496 • E-ISSN: 2397-2548 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2803349 |
| OpenAlex | W2796820475 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Political science · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Geology · History · World Systems and Global Transformations
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Ecological economics for humanity’s plague phase
Living to Spend Another Day
Overcoming societal addictions
The Chalcolithic Period of the Southern Levant
Organizational disintegration
The Politics of Climate Activism in the UK
Information Paradox
Studying the State
The Collapse of Complex Societies
Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability
From peacebuilding to sustaining peace
Classic Period collapse of the Central Maya Lowlands
Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health
Secondary State Formation and the Development of Local Identity
Sustainability or Collapse
Climate Change
Hydrologic Interdependencies and Human Cooperation
A Dynamic Collapse Concept for Climate Change
Collapse Theory and the End of Birdoswald
Introduction. Scaling Down in Order to Cool Down
Big Gods, socio-cultural evolution and the non-obvious merits of a sociological interpretation
China's Limits to Growth? The Difference Between Absolute, Relative and Precautionary Limits
Suburban Practices of Energy Descent
Remembering Malthus
Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe
Archaeologies of empire and environment
Power, Labor, and the Dynamics of Change in Chacoan Political Economy
Unfinished monumental projects and institutional crisis in the early pre-Columbian Andes
The emergence of status inequality in intermediate scale societies
Reply to Winterhalder's Behavioral and Other Human Ecologies
Comparing Cultures and Comparing Processes
Simulated impact of paleoclimate change on Fremont Native American maize farming in Utah, 850–1449 CE, using crop and climate models
Sustainable agrarian urbanism
Stop making sense
Using lidar and Bayesian inference to reconstruct archaeological populations in the Kingdom of Tonga
The Shangluo Corridor and the emerging Bronze Age exchange network of early China
How deep is incumbency? A ‘configuring fields’ approach to redistributing and reorienting power in socio-material change
Confronting anxiety and despair in environmental studies and sciences
Withdrawal from growth
Analysing Change
From elite folk science to the policy legend of the circular economy
Learning to teach climate change as if power matters
Cultural Identity and the Archaeological Construction of Historical Narratives
The Beginning of the End
What Maya Collapse? Terminal Classic Variation in the Maya Lowlands
Was There a 3.2 ka Crisis in Europe? A Critical Comparison of Climatic, Environmental, and Archaeological Evidence for Radical Change during the Bronze Age–Iron Age Transition
National Metabolism and Communications Technology Development in the United States, 1790-2000
Perception of change in freshwater in remote resource-dependent Arctic communities
Conditions for sustainability of human–environment systems
Global asymmetries in the rise of solar power
On the Circular Bioeconomy and Decoupling
The international division of labor and embodied working time in trade for the US, the EU and China
The Dynamics of Human–Environment Interactions in the Collapse of the Classic Maya
Water, culture, and adaptation in the High Plains-Ogallala Aquifer region
Great Zimbabwe in Historical Archaeology
A model-based approach to the tempo of “collapse”
Catastrophe
The passing of western civilization
Designing an experiential scenario
Is preservation inventing the past or creating the future
The IT revolution part 4
Diversity, Resiliency, and Ihope-Maya
Energy, complexity, and sustainability
Deep transitions
Bridging theoretical gaps in geoarchaeology
Collapse, complexity, and caprines
The heterarchical life and spatial analyses of the historical Buddhist temples in the Chiang Saen Basin, Northern Thailand
A Macroregional Perspective on Chiefly Cycling in the Central Region of Panama During the Late Ceramic Ii Period (A.D. 700–1522)
State Collapse and Household Resilience in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico
Comment les empires touchent à leur fin
The Emergence of Global Systemic Risk
Zero-Sum World
War or Religion in Different Cultural Contexts
Environmental innovation and societal transitions
The Problem of Energy
Secular stagnation and fiscal crisis in the United States and China
Redes de políticas públicas e a condução de sociedades complexas
Degrowth
Preindustrial Markets and Marketing
Archaeology of Overshoot and Collapse
Cross-Cultural Comparative Approaches in Archaeology
Social Transformation and Its Human Costs in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest
The Collapse of the Classic Maya
| Highly cited | No |
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