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  title info:
    title: Failing States, Collapsing Systems
    sub title: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence
  name:
    name part: Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VI, 110 p. 34 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This work executes a unique transdisciplinary methodology building on the author’s previous book, A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it (Pluto, 2010), which was the first peer-reviewed study to establish a social science framework for the integrated analysis of crises across climate, energy, food, economic, terror and the police state. Since the 2008 financial crash, the world has witnessed an unprecedented outbreak of social unrest in every major continent. Beginning with the birth of the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, the eruption of civil disorder continues to wreak havoc unpredictably from Greece to Ukraine, from China to Thailand, from Brazil to Turkey, and beyond. Yet while policymakers and media observers have raced to keep up with events, they have largely missed the biophysical triggers of this new age of unrest – the end of the age of cheap fossil fuels, and its multiplying consequences for the Earth’s climate, industrial food production, and economic growth. This book for the first time develops an empirically-ground theoretical model of the complex interaction between biophysical processes and geopolitical crises, demonstrated through the analysis of a wide range of detailed case studies of historic, concurrent and probable state failures in the Middle East, Northwest Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Europe and North America. Geopolitical crises across these regions, Ahmed argues, are being driven by the proliferation of climate, food and economic crises which have at their root the common denominator of a fundamental and permanent disruption in the energy basis of industrial civilization. This inevitable energy transition, which will be completed well before the close of this century, entails a paradigm shift in the organization of civilization. Yet for this shift to result in a viable new way of life will require a fundamental epistemological shift recognizing humanity’s embeddedness in the natural world. For this to b…
  table of contents: Introduction -- Riot Epidemic: State Failure, or System Failure? -- The Matrix: How Fossil Fuel Interests Dominate Corporate Media Reporting on Energy and Climate Change -- Failed Forecasts: How the Media’s Pro-Fossil Fuel Bias Ruins Energy Journalism -- Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, MENA -- Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, Europe -- Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, Asia -- Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, Africa -- How US, Britain and Europe are responding to the end of cheap oil: State-militarisation, fossil fuel consolidation -- Disruption from Below – Exponential Renewables -- Disruption from Below – Utility Death Spiral -- Disruption from Below – New Financial Models -- Disruption from Below – Decentralisation of Power -- Disruption from Below – the Open Source Revolution -- Disruption from Below – the Rising Culture -- Conclusions – Paradigm Shift.
  note: by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy policy
  subject:
    topic: Energy and state
  subject:
    topic: Nature
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Economic growth
  subject:
    topic: Social structure
  subject:
    topic: Social inequality
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy Policy, Economics and Management
  subject:
    topic: Social Structure, Social Inequality
  subject:
    topic: Economic Growth
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Economics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Nature and Environment
  classification: HD9502-9502.5
  classification: 333.79
  classification: 338.926
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Energy
  identifier: 9783319478166
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47816-6
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    record creation date: 161130
    record change date: 20161130080106.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-47816-6