Questioning Collapse

1. Why we question collapse and study human resilience, ecological vulnerability, and the aftermath of empire Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee Part I.

Human Resilience and Ecological Vulnerability: 2. Ecological catastrophe, collapse, and the myth of 'ecocide' on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Terry L. Hunt and Carl P.

Lipo 3. Did the medieval Norse society in Greenland really fail? Joel Berglund 4.

Calamities without collapse: environment, economy, and society in China, c.1800-1949 Kenneth Pomeranz Part II. Surviving Collapse: Studies of Societal Regeneration: 5. Marketing conquest and the vanishing Indian: an indigenous response to Jared Diamond's archaeology of the American southwest Michael Wilcox 6.

Bellicose rulers and climatological peril? Retrofitting 21st century woes on 8th century Maya society Patricia A. McAnany and Tomas Gallareta Negron 7.

Collapse in ancient Mesopotamia: what happened, what didn't Norman Yoffee Part III. Societies in the Aftermath of Empire: 8. Advanced Andeans and backward Europeans: structure and agency in the collapse of the Inca empire David Cahill 9.

Rwandan genocide: towards an explanation in which history and culture matter Christopher C. Taylor 10. 'Failed' states, societal 'collapse', and ecological 'disaster': a Haitian lesson on grand theory Drexel G. Woodson 11.

The power of the past: environment, Aborigines, archaeology, and a sustainable Australian society Tim Murray 12. Excusing the haves and blaming the have-nots in the telling of history Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz Part IV. Reflections on Sustainability: 13.

Sustainable survival J. R. McNeill.