Title:
Failing states, collapsing systems : biophysical triggers of political violence
Author:
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
Physical Description:
vi, 110 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9783319478142
Abstract:
This work executes a unique transdisciplinary methodology building on the author's previous book, A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it (Pluto, 2010), which was the first peer-reviewed study to establish a social science framework for the integrated analysis of crises across climate, energy, food, economic, terror and the police state. Since the 2008 financial crash, the world has witnessed an unprecedented outbreak of social unrest in every major continent. Beginning with the birth of the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, the eruption of civil disorder continues to wreak havoc unpredictably from Greece to Ukraine, from China to Thailand, from Brazil to Turkey, and beyond.
Contents:
The crisis of civilization as an analytical framework -- Net energy decline -- Permanent secular stagnation -- Earth system disruption -- Human system destabilization -- Biophysical triggers of crisis convergence in the Middle East -- Biophysical triggers of crisis convergence in Africa -- Biophysical triggers of crisis convergence in Asia -- Biophysical triggers of crisis convergence in the Euro-Atlantic core -- Conclusions: from systemic state-failure to civilizational transition.
Language:
English
