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	}}'''''Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed''''' (also titled '''''Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive''''') is a 2005 book by [[Jared Diamond]], [[professor]] of [[geography]] and [[physiology]] at [[University of California, Los Angeles]]. Diamond's book deals with "[[societal collapse]]s involving an [[Environment (biophysical)\|environment]]al component, and in some cases also contributions of [[climate change]], hostile neighbors, and [[international trade\|trade partner]]s, plus questions of societal responses" (p. 15). In writing the book Diamond intended that its readers should learn from [[history]] (p. 23).		}}'''''Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed''''' (also titled '''''Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive''''') is a 2005 book by [[Jared Diamond]], [[professor]] of [[geography]] and [[physiology]] at [[University of California, Los Angeles]]. Diamond's book deals with "[[societal collapse]]s involving an [[Environment (biophysical)\|environment]]al component, and in some cases also contributions of [[climate change]], hostile neighbors, and [[international trade\|trade partner]]s, plus questions of societal responses" (p. 15). In writing the book Diamond intended that its readers should learn from [[history]] (p. 23).

			==See also==
			* ''[[Guns, Germs, and Steel]]''

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	}}'''''Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed''''' (also titled '''''Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive''''') is a 2005 book by [[Jared ~~Diamond\|Jared M.~~ Diamond]], [[professor]] of [[geography]] and [[physiology]] at [[University of California, Los Angeles]]. Diamond's book deals with "[[societal collapse]]s involving an [[Environment (biophysical)\|environment]]al component, and in some cases also contributions of [[climate change]], hostile neighbors, and [[international trade\|trade partner]]s, plus questions of societal responses" (p. 15). In writing the book Diamond intended that its readers should learn from [[history]] (p. 23).		}}'''''Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed''''' (also titled '''''Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive''''') is a 2005 book by [[Jared Diamond]], [[professor]] of [[geography]] and [[physiology]] at [[University of California, Los Angeles]]. Diamond's book deals with "[[societal collapse]]s involving an [[Environment (biophysical)\|environment]]al component, and in some cases also contributions of [[climate change]], hostile neighbors, and [[international trade\|trade partner]]s, plus questions of societal responses" (p. 15). In writing the book Diamond intended that its readers should learn from [[history]] (p. 23).

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}}'''''Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed''''' (also titled '''''Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive''''') is a 2005 book by [[Jared Diamond|Jared M. Diamond]], [[professor]] of [[geography]] and [[physiology]] at [[University of California, Los Angeles]]. Diamond's book deals with "[[societal collapse]]s involving an [[Environment (biophysical)|environment]]al component, and in some cases also contributions of [[climate change]], hostile neighbors, and [[international trade|trade partner]]s, plus questions of societal responses" (p. 15). In writing the book Diamond intended that its readers should learn from [[history]] (p. 23).

==Links==
*{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/diamondjared/collapse |title=Metacritic – collection of reviews of book|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060721195941/http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/diamondjared/collapse|archivedate=July 21, 2006}}
*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/collapse.htm The first chapter]
*[http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2005_spring/02_diamond.html Tokugawa Shoguns vs. Consumer Democracy]: Diamond interview on the subjects raised in the book with ''NPQ'', Spring 2005, concentrating on the intersection of politics and environmentalism.
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4271982381147720351 How Societies Fail – And Sometimes Succeed], video of a seminar given in June 2005 at the [[Long Now Foundation]].
*[http://www.thwink.org/sustain/articles/008/LearningFromPastSocieties.htm Learning from Past Societies: The Sustainability Lessons Are There, If Only We Can Find Them] – This is an assessment of the process maturity used in Collapse and a similar book, Treading Lightly, to answer their driving questions. The assessment sheds light on the process maturity of any similar effort to solve difficult complex social system problems, particularly the sustainability problem.
* [http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/press/archive/2005_NHMPressRelease_Collapse.pdf COLLAPSE?] – museum exhibit developed by the [[Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County]] in collaboration with Jared Diamond (pdf archive)
* [http://environmental-issues.wikispaces.com/ Environmental-issues] – A public annotated bibliography containing print and online sources discussing the 12 most serious environmental problems that Diamond discusses in ''Collapse''.