Jared Diamond
（2005年，Viking Press，ISBN:0670033375）
【目次】
List of Maps xiiiPrologue: A Tale of Two Farms 1
Two farms / Collapses, past and present / Vanished Edens? / A five-point framework / Businesses and the environment / The comparative method / Plan of the bookPart One: Modern Montana 25
Chapter 1: Under Montana's Big Sky 27
Stan Falkow's story / Montana and me / Why begin with Montana? / Montana's economic history / Mining / Forests / Soil / Water / Native and non-native species / Differing visions / Attitudes towards regulation / Rick Laible's story / Chip Pigman's story / Tim Huls's story / John Cook's story / Montana, model of the worldPart Two: Past Societies 77
Chapter 2: Twilight at Easter 79
The quarry's mysteries / Easter's geography and history / People and food / Chiefs, clans, and commoners / Platforms and statues / Carving, transporting, erecting / The vanished forest / Consequences for society / Europeans and explanations / Why was Easter fragile? / Easter as metaphorChapter 3: The Last People Alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands 120
Picairn before the _Bounty_ / Three dissimilar islands / Trade / The movie's endingChapter 4: The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors 136
Desert farmers / Tree rings / Agricultural strategies / Chaco's problems and packrats / Regional integration / Chaco's decline and end / Chaco's messageChapter 5: The Maya Collapses 157
Mysteries of lost cities / The Maya environment / Maya agriculture / Maya history / Copan / Complexities of collapse / Wars and droughts / Collapse in the southern lowlands / The Maya messageChapter 6: The Viking Prelude and Fugues 178
Experiments in the Atlantic / The Viking explosion / Autocatalysis / Viking agriculture / Iron / Viking chiefs / Viking religion / Orkneys, Shetlands, Faeroes / Iceland's environment / Iceland's history / Iceland in context / VinlandChapter 7: Norse Greenland's Flowering 211
Europe's outpost / Greenland's climate today / Climate in the past / Native plants and animals / Norse settlement / Farming / Hunting and fishing / An integrated economy / Society / Trade with Europe / Self-imageChapter 8: Norse Greenland's End 248
Introduction to the end / Deforestation / Soil and turl damage / The Inuit's predecessors / Inuit subsistence / Inuit - Norse relations / The end / Ultimate causes of the endChapter 9: Opposite Paths to Success 277
Bottom up, top down / New Guinea highlands / Tikopia / Tokugawa problems / Tokugawa solutions / Why Japan succeeded / Other successesPart Three: Modern Societies 309
Chapter 10: Malthus in Africa: Rwanda's Genocide 311
A dilemma / Events in Rwanda / More than ethnic hatred / Build up in Kanama / Explosion in Kanama / Why it happenedChapter 11: One Island, Two People, Two Histories: The Dominican Republic and Haiti 329
Differences / Histories / Causes of divergence / Dominican environmental impacts / Balaguer / The Dominican environment today / The futureChapter 12: China, Lurching Giant 358
China's significance / Background / Air, water , soil / Habitat, species, megaprojects / Consequences / Connections / The futureChapter 13: "Mining" Australia 378
Australia's significance / Soils / Water / Distance / Early history / Imported values / Trade and immigration / Land degradation / Other environmental problems / Signs of hope and change
Part Four: Practical Lessons 417
Chapter 14: Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? 419
Road map for success / Failure to anticipate / Failure to perceive / Rational bad behaviour / Disastrous values / Other irrational failures / Unsuccessful solutions / Signs of hopeChapter 15: Big Businesses and the Environment: Different Conditions, Different Outcomes 441
Resource extraction / Two oil fields / Oil company motives / Hardrock mining operations / Mining company motives / Differences among mining companies / The logging industory / Forest Stewardship Council / The seafood industry / Businesses and the publicChapter 16: The World as a Polder: What Does It All Mean to Us Today? 486
Introduction / The most serious problems / If we don't solve them... / Life in Los Angeles / One-liner objections / The past and the present / Reasons for hopeAckowledgments 526
Further Readings 529
Index 561
Illustration Credits 576
