Seneca Effect

Seneca Effect

Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid

Bardi, Ugo

Springer International Publishing AG

09/2017

210

Dura

Inglês

9783319572062

15 a 20 dias

4675

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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.
Malthusian catastrophe;collapse of complex structures;the mechanics of fracture;limits to growth;resource depletion forecast;complexity;data-driven science, modeling and theory building