by Jared Diamond · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143036555
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«Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed» is Jared Diamond's history essay, published by Penguin in paperback (575 pages, in English).
Jared Diamond investigates why civilizations such as Easter Island, the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony of Greenland collapsed. He points to environmental damage, climate change, population growth, and poor political decisions, and contrasts these cases with societies that persisted and with current environmental problems.
The book is the second title in the 'Civilizations Rise and Fall' series. It won the California Book Award and was nominated for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.
This popular science work is aimed at a general audience interested in history, environment, and politics.
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.
