Organization, Society and Environment

Collapse, environment, and society.

Historical collapse of ancient states poses intriguing social-ecological questions, as well as potential applications to global change and contemporary strategies for sustainability. Five Old World case studies are developed to identify interactive inputs, triggers, and feedbacks in devolution. Collapse is multicausal and rarely abrupt. Political simplification undermines traditional structures...

Modularity in Technology, Organization, and Society

Environment , Energy , and Society : A New Synthesis

Market economies , society and the environment

One of the key ideas of Karl Polanyi, expounded in The Great Transformation, is that the creation of markets in labour and land that are required for a self-regulating market economy destroys society and nature. In this paper I explore three elements of the conceptual framework such markets impose in an attempt to understand why such markets are so destructive. I draw on the work of Eric Fromm ...

Metals in Society and in the Environment