Sunk‐Cost Effects and Vulnerability to Collapse in Ancient Societies1

By Marco A. Janssen, T. Kohler, Marten Scheffer. Current Anthropology, 2003

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RESILIENCE: THE EMERGENCE OF A PERSPECTIVE FOR SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ANALYSES (2006, background): “There are scholars that have interpreted social dynamics in terms of regime shifts, for example, in relation to vulnerability and collapse of ancient societies (Janssen et al., 2003), to opinion shifts in relation to leadership, social capital and learning for how to deal with complex adaptive syste”
Middle-range theories of land system change (2018, background): “Research on path dependence and sunk costs in land systems, in relation to landesque capital, builds on this perspective (Janssen et al., 2003).”
Robustness Trade-offs in Social-Ecological Systems (2007, background): “…et al. 2004; Anderies 2005; Anderies et al. 2006; Folke 2006; Gunderson et al. 1995; Berkes and Folke 1998; Berkes et al. 2003; Gunderson and Holling 2002) as well as more general issues including understanding long-term change in human societies (Redman and Kinzig 2003; Janssen et al. 2003).”
The Evolutionary Basis of Rigidity: Locks in Cells, Minds, and Society (2007, background): “…instance, archeological reconstructions have revealed that the Anasazi in the American Southwest kept constructing their big cities even during severe periods of droughts, whereas in small settlements in the same region construction was abandoned during such adverse episodes (Janssen et al. 2003).”