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- Presents wisdom from an ancient Roman Philosopher that you can use today
- Explains why technological progress may not prevent societal collapse
- Provides a true systems perspective on the widespread phenomenon of collapse
- Highlights principles to help us manage, rather than be managed by, the greatest challenges of our times
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Frontiers Collection (FRONTCOLL)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
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Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
Ugo Bardi
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Seneca Effect
Book Subtitle: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid
Authors: Ugo Bardi
Series Title: The Frontiers Collection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57207-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57206-2Published: 07 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86103-6Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57207-9Published: 22 August 2017
Series ISSN: 1612-3018
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 210
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Complexity, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems