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Readings (Summary Notes) February 27, 2025 update

The following are my personal summary notes from books/articles I have read and taken ‘detailed’ notes on.


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Newman, P.

Beyond Peak Oil: Will Our Cities Collapse? Journal of Urban Technology 1 14:2 (2007), pp. 15-30

PDF: Beyond Peak Oil

 

Goehring & Rozencwajg: Natural Resource Investors

The Depletion Paradox

Excerpt from Third Quarter Natural Resource Market Commentary December 5, 2024 https://blog.gorozen.com/blog/the-depletion-paradox

PDF: Depletion Paradox

 

Scheffer, M.

Anticipating Societal Collapse; Hints From the Stone Age Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 113, No. 39 (September 27, 2016), pp. 10733-10735 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26471823

PDF: Anticipating Societal Collapse

 

Weiss, H. & Bradley, R.S.

What Drives Societal Collapse? Science, Jan. 26, 2001, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 5504, pp. 609-610 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3082228

PDF: Societal Collapse


Ashworth, S.

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, 2nd Edition. Seed Savers Exchange, Inc., 2002. (ISBN 1-882424-58-1)

PDF: Seed to Seed


Brooks, N.

Beyond Collapse: Climate Change and Causality During the Middle Holocene Climatic Transition, 6400-5000 Years Before Present. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 2013. Vol. 112, No. 2, 93-104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00167223.2012.741881

PDF: Beyond Collapse


Canadian Red Cross

First Aid & CPR Manual. The StayWell Health Company Ltd., 2011. (ISBN 978-1-58480-513-7)

PDF: Canadian Red Cross Fist Aid and CPR Manual


Catton, Jr., W.R. 

Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. University of Illinois Press, 1980. (ISBN 0-252-00818-9)

PDF: Overshoot_ The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change


Duncan, R.
The Olduvai Theory: Sliding Towards a Post-Industrial Stone Age. Institute on Energy and Man, June 27, 1996. (https://dieoff.com/page125.htm)

PDF: Olduvai Theory_ Sliding Towards a Post-Industrial Stone Age

The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge. November 13, 2000. (http://www.oilcrash.com/articles/olduvai.htm)

PDF: The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge


Gardner, D.
Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail–and Why We Believe Them Anyway. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2010. (ISBN 978-0-7710-3513-5)

PDF: Future Babble


Martin, D.L. and G. Gershuny (eds.)

The Rodale Book of Composting. Rodale Press, 1992. (ISBN 0-87857-991-5)

PDF: The Rodale Book of Composting


Rothbard, M.

Anatomy of the State. The Mises Institute, 2009. (ISBN 978-80-87888-43-8)

PDF: Anatomy of the State


Scarborough, V.L. and W.R. Burnside

Complexity and Sustainability: Perspectives From the Ancient Maya and the Modern Balinese. American Antiquity, April 2010. Vol. 75 No. 2, pp. 327-363

PDF: Complexity and Sustainability


Tainter, J.R.
The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge University Press, 1988. (ISBN 978-0-521-38673-9)

PDF: Collapse of Complex Societies

Problem Solving: Complexity, History, Sustainability. Population and Environment, Sep., 2000. Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 3-41

PDF: Problem Solving

Archaeology of Overshoot and Collapse. Annual Review of Anthropology, 2006, Vol. 35, pp. 59-74. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25064914

PDF: Archaeology of Overshoot and Collapse


 

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