01440nam a2200265Ia 450000100070000000500170000700700030002400800410002702000250006802000150009302000230010802000260013105000160015710000220017324501030019526000300029830000340032850000720036250400510043452006080048565000190109365000180111265000250113070000190115582711520230531231159.0tz120824s2005    ja mb    b   a001 0 jpn d  a9784794214652cY2000  a4794214642  a4794214650 (v.2) :  a9784794214652 (v.2) :00aHN13b.D5371 aDiamond, Jared M.10aBunmei hokai :bmetsubo to sonzoku no meiun o wakeru mono /cJaredo Daiamondo ; Nirei Koichi yaku.  aTokyo :bSoshisha,c2005.  a436p. :bill., maps ;c20 cm.  aTranslation of: Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aWhat caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals our environment gives us. 0aSocial history 0aSocial change 0aEnvironmental policy1 aNirei, Koichi.