selfsimilarities and structural differences in the operation and different paths of disintegration, collapse and transformations of …

by Joseph Tainter in The Collapse of Complex Societies (1990) or an adverse decline situation similar to adverse … countries will continue to decline, as emerging markets consume a greater share of the total oil that is available. If this … including significant debt defaults. The financial crisis may eventually worsen, to resemble a collapse situation as described …

induce an economic collapse. In nuclear family structures, random matching of partners is superior to assortative mating only … equal treatment of all children in extended families may fend off a general collapse, depending on the initial conditions …

A large number of collapse sinkholes have been developed in the period 1989–2004 in Famenin and Kabudar Ahang plains … sand productive wells. Increasing effective stresses have mainly caused the formation of dropout sinkholes or cover-collapse …