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Will progress in science and technology avert or accelerate global collapse? A critical analysis and policy recommendations

Huesemann, Michael; Huesemann, Joyce - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 10 (2008) 6, pp. 787-825

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Diversity of fragments in the collapse of brittle solids11This work was supported in part by CNPq, FAPESP, and FINEP (Brazilian Government Agencies).

Brito, V.P.; Gomes, M.A.F.; Souza, F.A.O.; Adhikari, … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 259 (1998) 3, pp. 227-234

An experimental study of fragmentation of brittle solids under the application of repeated impulsive force is made, emphasizing the behavior of the diversity of fragments. Several scaling relations involving diversity and number of fragments are obtained from experiments and the results are...

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Equilibres et effondrement dans le cadre d'un cycle naturel

Germain, Marc - In: Brussels Economic Review 55 (2012) 4, pp. 427-455

economy and those that are likely to destabilise andlead it to collapse, we study different cases depending on the form of (i …

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The Collapse of a European Bank in the Financial Crisis: An Analysis from Stakeholder and Ethical Perspectives

Fassin, Yves; Gosselin, Derrick - In: Journal of Business Ethics 102 (2011) 2, pp. 169-191

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АНАЛИЗ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ НАСИЛИЯ В ПОЛИТИКЕ

МИХАЙЛОВИЧ, ПОЛЯКОВ ЕВГЕНИЙ - In: Общество: политика, экономика, … (2012) 3, pp. 31-38

В данной статье рассмотрена проблема применения насилия массовыми движениями для достижения политических целей в ходе противоборства с государством....

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Oil supply limits and the continuing financial crisis

Tverberg, Gail E. - In: Energy 37 (2012) 1, pp. 27-34

including significant debt defaults. The financial crisis may eventually worsen, to resemble a collapse situation as described … by Joseph Tainter in The Collapse of Complex Societies (1990) or an adverse decline situation similar to adverse …

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Modeling the dynamics of disaster evolution along causality networks with cycle chains

Li, Jian; Chen, Changkun - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 401 (2014) C, pp. 251-264

A model for describing the evolution process of disasters, especially for disaster causality networks with cycle chains, has been developed. In the model, the impacts from the causative nodes, self-recovery behaviors, repair by government, internal noise and impacts outside the system have been...

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Predicting the geotechnical performance of Lisan Marl using finite element analysis, Dead Sea area

Mansour, Ziad; Chik, Zamri; Taha, Mohd - In: Natural Hazards 54 (2010) 3, pp. 931-947

This paper investigates the changes in Lisan Marl properties upon leaching the soluble minerals and collapse potential …

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Enjoying Catch and Fishing Effort: The Effort Effect in Recreational Fisheries

Stoeven, Max - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 57 (2014) 3, pp. 393-404

holds under first-best management, it may destabilize open-access recreational fisheries to the point of stock collapse …

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On the problem of scale: Hayek, Kohr, Jacobs and the reinvention of the political state

Gussen, Benjamen - In: Constitutional Political Economy 24 (2013) 1, pp. 19-42

), scale and collapse. To illustrate, the paper traces this ansatz in the writings of Friedrich Hayek, Léopold Kohr and Jane … Jacobs (HKJ). The thesis is that the moribund nation state needs to be relegated to a subsidiary role to evade collapse …

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