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    Societal Collapse


    A Living Literature Review
    • How to write a living literature review

      Finding papers, coming up with ideas, writing and publishing

      Posted on 2025/04/22

      So, how do you actually write a living literature review? In the more than two years that I have been writing this (time really flies), sometimes I get asked how I go about writing the posts here. With this post, I want to answer this question. While this is focussed... [Read More]
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    • Revolution and democracy

      Hannah Arendt's vision for true freedom

      Posted on 2025/02/06

      What do you think about when you hear the term revolution? Likely, you think of the French Revolution and things like the Storm of the Bastille, the Guillotine or Louis XVI’s execution. It is on the forefront of our minds, because the French Revolution escalated so quickly and so violently... [Read More]
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    • Systemic risk and the polycrisis

      A primer

      Posted on 2025/02/05

      Imagine a row of dominoes where knocking over one piece triggers a cascade that topples them all. This is systemic risk - when a single failure can bring down an entire system. Now imagine several such cascade failures happening simultaneously at a global scale and making each other worse. This... [Read More]
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    • Economic inequality and societal collapse

      If you want to have a stable society, make sure no one is left behind

      Posted on 2024/12/20

      While writing this living literature review on societal collapse, one topic that keeps popping up again and again is economic inequality. It seems that this inequality makes societies inherently less stable and less able to internally coordinate and thus more vulnerable to collapse. Some examples of us exploring how inequality... [Read More]
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    • Resilient foods

      How to feed everyone, even in the worst of times

      Posted on 2024/12/18

      What would we eat if the sun disappeared tomorrow? Or if our electrical grid collapsed worldwide? This is a topic I am quite interested in, because many of the facets of societal collapse are quite intimately linked to the food system. In previous posts we have explored what happens during... [Read More]
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    Florian Ulrich Jehn  •  2025

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