The term collapsology is a neologism used to designate the transdisciplinary study of the risks of collapse of industrial civilization.[1] It is concerned with the general collapse of societies induced by climate change, as well as "scarcity of resources, vast extinctions, and natural disasters."[2] Although the concept of civilizational or societal collapse had already existed for many years, collapsology focuses its attention on contemporary, industrial, and globalized societies.
- ^ Bold, Rosalyn (2019). Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World: Creating a Cosmopolitics of Change. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 163. ISBN 978-3-030-13859-2.
- ^ Daoudy, Marwa (2020). The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-108-47608-9.