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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Erscheint auch als: Bardi, Ugo, 1952. Seneca Effect. Cham : Springer, 2017 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 210 p. 57 illus., 21 illus. in color, online resource) Online-Ausgabe |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ugo Bardi |
ISBN: | 9783319572062 3319572067 |
OCLC Number: | 1005292197 |
Description: | 209 Seiten : Illustrationen. |
Contents: | Introduction.- Seneca's times: The fall of the Roman Empire.- The Seneca collapse as a critical phenomenon: why do things break?.- Networks: the Seneca collapse of complex structures.- Fast and Furious Seneca: Financial collapses.- Destroying what keeps you alive: the tragedy of the commons.- The World as a Giant Bathtub: the Seneca Collapse of Complex Systems.- World models and the collapse of everything.- The dark heart of the fossil empires.- Malthus was an optimist: famines and population collapses.- The Seneca asteroid: climate change as the ultimate collapse.- Managing complex systems: how to pull the levers in the right direction.- Conclusion: How to euthanize an empire. |
Series Title: | The frontiers collection |
Responsibility: | Ugo Bardi. |
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"The bulk of this book is a catalogue of collapses. Bardi starts small with structural failures, such as collapsing building, avalanches, or cracks in metal objects and how these grow. He then walks the reader through a selection of cheerful examples of past or imminent collapses on larger scales ... . Bardi's book is an interesting and worthwhile exercise in bringing together many seemingly disparate topics into one framework that should get readers thinking." (Leon, NHBS Book Shop, nhbs.com, September, 2018) Read more...

