GEOL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Complex Adaptive System, Ester Boserup, Thomas Robert Malthus
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Environmental determinism: the biophysical environment of a society controls its cultural development. Example: europeans colonizing new world, using natives for farming. Population grows faster than our ability to produce food. Reality is not a simple cause and effects. As civilizations grow, there is an increased in number of connections and subsystems. Herders and farmers begin to live together. Key factors in societal collapse: (these are all connected, flow between each other) Degradation of living space through shear pollution. Values people have are put into policy. Lack of enforcement or unequal enforcement (targeting certain groups)
