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Ugo Bardi

The Seneca Effect

Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid

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?The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid. This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call collapse, which is typically sudden and often unexpected, like the proverbial house of cards. But why are such collapses so common, and what generates them? Several books have been published on the subject, including the well-known Collapse by Jared Diamond (2005), The collapse of complex societies by Joseph Tainter (1998) and The Tipping Point, by Malcom Gladwell (2000). Why The Seneca Effect? This book is a… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-319-57206-2
  • EAN: 9783319572062
  • Produktnummer: 22590997
  • Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 209 S.
  • Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.8 cm 512 g
  • Abbildungen: Book; 23 schwarz-weiße und 34 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie
  • Gewicht: 512

Über den Autor


Ugo Bardi teaches physical chemistry at the University of Florence, in Italy. He is interested in resource depletion, system dynamics modeling, climate science and renewable energy. He is member of the scientific committee of ASPO (Association for the study of peak oil) and regular contributor of The Oil Drum and Resilience.org. His blog in English is called Cassandra's legacy. His most recent book in English Extracted: How the Quest for Global Mining Wealth is Plundering the Planet (Chelsea Green, 2014. He is also the author of The Limits to Growth Revisited (Springer 2011).

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