2009 hatte J. Rockström, schwedischer Resilienzforscher, mit weiteren Klimaexperten das Konzept der Planetary Boundaries (planetarische Grenzen) veröffentlicht. Planetarische Grenzen gelten ihm als Leitplanken, um Risiken zu verhindern, in die ökologische Katastrophe abzustürzen. Verhalten...

What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the...

"This book investigates the many ways in which industrial capitalist agriculture has penetrated and transformed contemporary Latin America. Using a range of case studies from across the region, the book considers the socio-economic, political and ecological implications of the agro-industrial...