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1 online resource : illustrations (some color). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Focus on civilizations and cultures
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Focus on civilizations and cultures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
THE LIMITS OF CIVILIZATION; THE LIMITS OF CIVILIZATION; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Foreword; AUTHOR CONTACT INFORMATION; Part I: Introduction to Civilization; Chapter 1: The Nature of Civilization; Summary; Chapter 2: How Civilizations Perish; Summary; Chapter 3: The Second Great Crisis of Civilization in History; Over-communication Crisis; Super-capacity Crisis; Global Business Crisis; The Crisis of Religion; Population Crisis; Ecological Crisis; The Crisis of Natural Resources; Food Crisis; The Crisis of Technology; The Crisis of Science. |
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Administration CrisisWar Crisis; Media Crisis; Political Crisis; Culture and Trust Crises; Education Crisis; Summary; Chapter 4: The Global Civilization Development and Its Repercussions; Summary; Part II: Civilization in Crisis; Chapter 5: The Death Triangle of Civilization in the 21st Century; Goals by 2050 -- Preventing the Civilization Death Triangle; Summary; Chapter 6: Capitalism and the 21st Century Limits of Civilization; Summary; Chapter 7: Superconsumerism and the 21st Century; Summary; Chatper 8: Technology and the Limits of Civilization in the 21st Century; Summary. |
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Chapter 9: Climate and the 21st Century Limits of CivilizationSummary; Chapter 10: Culture and the 21st Century Limits of Civilization; Electronic Civilization (1990 -- ); Electronic Culture; The Global Culture; Virtual Civilization and Culture (2010 -- ); Summary; Part III: End of Civilization?; Chatper 11: The Power of Crisis Relations and the Limits of Civilization in the 21st Century; Background; The Centrality of Crises in the Early 21st Century; How to Eliminate these Crises?; The State of Economic Sciences in the Early 21st Century. |
| Summary |
This book has been inspired by Dennis Meadows's (et al.) The Limits to Growth, published 41 years ago, in 1972. It forewarned the general public about the exhaustion of strategic resources of the planet as known at that time, unless economic and population expansions were halted. This resulted in the world becoming aware of the crisis of civilization. Measures were taken to reduce the consumption of the strategic resources, including the promotion of recycling resources used. Efforts were made internationally to introduce the practice of climate and environmental protection, to little avail. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Civilization.
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Civilization. |
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civilization. |
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HISTORY -- World. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Targowski, Andrew. Limits of civilization. New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers, ©2015 viii, 167 pages Focus on civilizations and cultures. 9781634634236 |
| ISBN |
9781634634687 (electronic book) |
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1634634683 (electronic book) |
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9781634634236 |
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