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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"societal collapse"”.
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Reframing global warming for better risk management: climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse
… impacts take the form of human suffering, societal collapse or extinction. However, consideration and communication of these concerning outcomes, with respect to climate change, is underdeveloped. This thesis is motivated by the idea that reframing the threat of climate change to embody …
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International law and state failure - Somalia and Yugoslavia
… is defined as governmental and societal collapse in a State, so severe as to render it incapable of exercising internal and external sovereignty. It is likely to take the form of either conflictual implosion - such as in Somalia; or fragmentary explosion - as in Yugoslav ia. …
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Complexity within the Air Force acquisition system gaining insight from a theory of collapse
Joseph Tainter's theory of societal collapse is applied in an examination of the U.S. Air Force's aircraft acquisition system in order to gain insight into the enterprise's lagging performance. Theories of collapse at both the societal level and the organizational level are reviewed. Tainter's …
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Memory, Identity, and the Role of Revival: Tracing Changes in Material Culture of the Ica Society on the Peruvian South Coast (c. 1000–1600 CE)
… expansionist Wari polity (c. 1000 CE) and the collapse of the Inca Empire (c. 1532 CE). Changes in Ica material culture are analysed through multiple generations over a 600-year time span, allowing for the investigation of the relationships between social memory, identity negotiation, and the …
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The Accelerationist International
… in the 1990s, where the Soviet Union never collapsed, and Ronald Reagan has begun his fourth term as President. In the first act, the narrator—a computer software engineer—is picked up by government agents to help the United States as tensions escalate in the ongoing Cold War. He is flown to …
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Dominance, social organisation and cooperation in the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius)
… to conflicts-of-interests which may lead to societal collapse. Dominance may function as a central mechanism behind the maintenance of cooperative societies, because it may reduce conflict by the establishment of hierarchies, and may act in concert with kin selection, enforcement or …