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Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

Life in the Digital Dark Ages

By: Sing C. Chew

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Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

Life in the Digital Dark Ages

By: Sing C. Chew

We live in a digitalized world that is experiencing environmental changes, scarcity of natural resources, global pandemics, mass migrations, and burgeoning global populations. In Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality, Sing C. Chew proposes that we meet these challenges by examining the connected global world we live in and by considering the advances that have been made in digitalization, miniaturization, dematerialization, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented realities, and machine learning, which have increased our socioeconomic and political productivity. Chew outlines potential structural avenues to address these challenges, suggests pragmatic choices to ease living during these chaotic crisis conditions, and outlines solutions that will enable us to traverse systemic crises.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

179364151X

ISBN 13

9781793641519

The Recurring Dark Ages

Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation

By: Sing C. Chew

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The Recurring Dark Ages

Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation

By: Sing C. Chew

In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of a 5,000-year history of recurring human and environmental crises_a Dark Ages significant in defining the relationship between nature and culture. The author's message about the coming Dark Ages, as human communities continue to reorganize to meet the contingencies of ecological scarcity and climate changes, is a must-read for those concerned with human interactions and environmental changes, including environmental anthropologists and historians, world historians, geographers, archaeologists, and environmental scientists.

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318

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Rowman Altamira

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ISBN 10

0759104522

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9780759104525

The Southeast Asia Connection

Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500

By: Sing C. Chew

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The Southeast Asia Connection

Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500

By: Sing C. Chew

The contribution of Southeast Asia to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not received much attention. It has often been viewed as a region of peripheral entrepôts, especially in the early centuries of the current era. Recent archaeological evidence revealed the existence of established and productive polities in Southeast Asia in the early parts of the historic period and earlier. This book recalibrates these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than of marginal interest.

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188

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Berghahn Books

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ISBN 10

1785337890

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9781785337895

World Ecological Degradation

Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000

By: Sing C. Chew

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World Ecological Degradation

Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000

By: Sing C. Chew

Deforestation, soil runoff, salination, pollution. While recurrent themes of the contemporary world, they are not new to us. In this broad sweeping review of the environmental impacts of human settlement and development worldwide over the past 5,000 years, Sing C. Chew shows that these processes are as old as civilization itself. With examples ranging from Ancient Mesopotamia to Malaya, Mycenaean Greece to Ming China, Chew shows that the processes of population growth, intensive resource accumulation, and urbanization in ancient and modern societies almost universally bring on ecological disaster, which often contributes to the decline and fall of that society. He then turns his eye to the development of the modern European world-system and its impact on the environment. Challenging us to change these long-term trends, Chew also traces the existence of environmental conservation ideas and movements over the span of 5,000 years. Can we do it? Look at Chew's evidence of the past five millennia and decide. Ideal for courses in environmental history, anthropology, and sociology, and world-systems theory.

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238

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Rowman Altamira

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0759100314

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9780759100312

Ecological Futures

What History Can Teach Us

By: Sing C. Chew

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Ecological Futures

What History Can Teach Us

By: Sing C. Chew

Ecological Futures, the final book in Sing C. Chew's trilogy on world ecological degradation, proposes that our own era exhibits ecological conditions similar to those of the past. The climate changes, environmental crises, mass population migrations, and socioeconomic disorganization we find in our globalized world also characterized the Late Bronze Age and the period following the fall of the Roman Empire. Given such historical parallels, can history tell us what to expect? Analyzing past trends, Chew identifies a set of long-term structural changes common to previous systemic crises and suggests possible outcomes. These 'possible futures' include the collapse of systems, territories, informational technologies, and communities in an era of scarce resources, political reorganization, and globalization.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759112231

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9780759112230

Book's by Sing C. Chew

Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

The Recurring Dark Ages

The Recurring Dark Ages

The Southeast Asia Connection

The Southeast Asia Connection

World Ecological Degradation

World Ecological Degradation

Ecological Futures

Ecological Futures

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