Ecological Degradation Past and Present
A Trilogy
2008
Altamira Press
978-0-7591-1203-2 (ISBN)
Altamira Press
978-0-7591-1203-2 (ISBN)
Sing Chew argues that world history is characterized by periods of over-accumulation followed by environmental degradation and sytems collapse, and he suggests that we are in a period of extreme environmental degradation today.
In his trilogy of environmental studies—World Ecological Degradation, The Recurring Dark Ages, and Ecological Futures—Sing Chew surveys 5,000 years of human history and finds a distinctive, recurring pattern: Civilizations that amass vast wealth do so by exhausting their environment, thus sowing the seeds of their collapse. Again and again, Chew observes, periods of over-accumulation are followed by extreme environmental degradation, the collapse of social systems, and a Dark Age. Today, at the beginning of the third millennium A.D., we are in the midst of a period of unprecedented accumulation, this time on a global scale, and we are experiencing worldwide environmental degradation, from the ozone layer to the rain forest. If past is prologue, Chew warns, then modern mankind may face a broad collapse of social systems and an unsettling future.
In his trilogy of environmental studies—World Ecological Degradation, The Recurring Dark Ages, and Ecological Futures—Sing Chew surveys 5,000 years of human history and finds a distinctive, recurring pattern: Civilizations that amass vast wealth do so by exhausting their environment, thus sowing the seeds of their collapse. Again and again, Chew observes, periods of over-accumulation are followed by extreme environmental degradation, the collapse of social systems, and a Dark Age. Today, at the beginning of the third millennium A.D., we are in the midst of a period of unprecedented accumulation, this time on a global scale, and we are experiencing worldwide environmental degradation, from the ozone layer to the rain forest. If past is prologue, Chew warns, then modern mankind may face a broad collapse of social systems and an unsettling future.
Sing C. Chew is senior research scientist in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; professor of sociology at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California; and founding editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Nature and Culture.
Part 1 World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000BC to AD2000 Part 2 The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation Part 3 Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.8.2008 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | California |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7591-1203-7 / 0759112037 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7591-1203-2 / 9780759112032 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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