How To Survive A Societal Disasters
Societal collapse broadly includes both quite abrupt societal failures typified by collapses (such as that of the Mayan Civilization), as well as more extended grinding declines of superpowers (like the Roman empire in Western Europe and the Han Dynasty in East Asia).
The general subject arises in anthropology, history, sociology, politics and other fields, and more recently in complex systems science.
The general subject arises in anthropology, history, sociology, politics and other fields, and more recently in complex systems science.
In systems science it refers to the presumed organizational structures of societies and how they prevent societies from adapting to change in their circumstances. A simple example would be the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The common factors appearing to contribute to societal collapse are economic, environmental, social and cultural, but they manifest combined effects like a whole system out of balance.
In many cases a natural disaster (e.g. tsunami, earthquake, massive fire or climate change) may seem to be an immediate cause. However, other cases of civilizations in similar situations that were resilient and survived the same kind of insult show that such causes are not sufficient.
