Joseph Tainter

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Joseph Tainter is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Santa Barbara, Northwestern University , Utah State University, Northwestern University, University of New Mexico, Arizona State University, University of California, Santa Cruz

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PhD Anthropology Northwestern University
Masters Anthropology Northwestern University
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Joseph Anthony Tainter is an American anthropologist and historian. Biography Tainter studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975. he holds a professorship in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University. His previous positions include Project Leader of Cultural Heritage Research, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

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Published Works

The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988) (1770)
Mortuary Practices and the Study of Prehistoric Social Systems (1978) (276)
The way the wind blows : climate, history, and human action (2000) (262)
Sustainability and Sustainable Development (2008) (244)
Social complexity and sustainability (2006) (221)
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource (2015) (198)
Supply-Side Sustainability (2003) (175)
Dragnet Ecology—“Just the Facts, Ma'am”: The Privilege of Science in a Postmodern World (2001) (144)
Problem Solving: Complexity, History, Sustainability (2000) (138)
Archaeology of overshoot and collapse (2006) (129)
Energy, complexity, and sustainability: A historical perspective (2011) (114)
What is Transformation (2014) (103)
Social inference and mortuary practices: an experiment in numerical classification. (1975) (100)
Epistemology of the Significance Concept (1983) (81)
Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies (1996) (78)
Drilling Down: The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma (2011) (77)
Sustainability of complex societies (1995) (75)
Climate, History, and Human Action (2000) (73)
Resource Transitions and Energy Gain: Contexts of Organization (2003) (72)
Complexity and the productivity of innovation (2010) (63)
Evolving Complexity and Environmental Risk in the Prehistoric Southwest: Proceedings of the Workshop “Resource Stress, Economic Uncertainty, and Human Response in the Prehistoric Southwest,” Held February 25–29, 1992 in Santa Fe, NM (1995) (55)
Ecology, diversity, and sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin (1995) (49)
Modeling Change in Prehistoric Social Systems (1977) (43)
A Framework for Sustainability (2003) (40)
Complexity, problem-solving, sustainability and resilience (2014) (40)
Collapse, Sustainability, and the Environment: How Authors Choose to Fail or Succeed (2008) (36)
Woodland Social Change in West-Central Illinois (1977) (35)
Global Change, History, and Sustainability (2000) (34)
Climate, Complexity, and Problem Solving in the Roman Empire (2007) (33)
Behavior and Status in a Middle Woodland Mortuary Population from the Illinois Valley (1980) (32)
Cultural Heritage Management (1999) (28)
Energy Transformations and Post-Normal Science (2006) (27)
An Archaeological Analysis of Social Ranking and Residence Groups in Prehistoric Hawaii (1977) (27)
Complexity and Sustainability (2013) (26)
THE SOCIAL CORRELATES OF MORTUARY PATTERNING AT KALOKO, NORTH KONA, HAWAII (1973) (24)
The Mountainair Lithic Scatters: Settlement Patterns and Significance Evaluation of Low Density Surface Sites (1979) (23)
Spatial Organisation and Social Patterning in the Kaloko Cemetery, North Kona, Hawaii (1976) (20)
Productivity of innovation in biofuel technologies (2019) (20)
The Nexus of Population, Energy, Innovation, and Complexity (2016) (20)
Introduction: Prehistoric Societies as Evolving Complex Systems (1996) (19)
Group Report: Millennial Perspectives on the Dynamic Interaction of Climate, People, and Resources (2007) (18)
Settlement Behavior and the Archaeological Record: Concepts for the Definition of "Archaeological Site" (1983) (18)
Tropical landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Diversity in time and space (2014) (16)
Resources and Cultural Complexity: Implications for Sustainability (2011) (15)
Late Hohokam Prehistory in Southern Arizona. David E. Doyel. Contributions in Archaeology, No. 2, Gila Press, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1981. xi + 99 pp., illus., biblio. Paper. (1983) (15)
14 Collapse and Sustainability: Rome, the Maya, and the Modern World (2014) (15)
Mapping degrees of complexity, complicatedness, and emergent complexity (2017) (14)
Regenerative design in science and society (2012) (14)
Post-Collapse Societies (1999) (13)
Aeolian and fluviolacustrine landforms and prehistoric human occupation on a technically influenced floodplain margin, the Méma, central Mali (2007) (12)
Woodland Social Change in the Central Midwest: A Review and Evaluation of Interpretive Trends (1983) (10)
Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest@@@Evolving Complexity and Environmental Risk in the Prehistoric Southwest (1998) (9)
Evolutionary Consequences of War (1991) (8)
The Way the Wind Blows : Climate Change, History, and Human Action (2000) (8)
Persistent Dilemmas in American Cultural Reource Management (2004) (8)
Surface Archaeology: Perceptions, Values, and Potential (1998) (8)
Integrating Economic Gain in Biosocial Systems (2010) (8)
Sustainable Rural Communities: General Principles and North American Indicators (2001) (8)
Scale and Dependency in World Systems: Local Societies in Convergent Evolution (2007) (8)
Persistent Dilemmas in American Cultural Reource Management (2004) (8)
Geomorphology and human palaeoecology of the Méma, Mali (2005) (8)
Why Collapse is So Difficult to Understand (2016) (7)
Reply to “A Critique of Some Recent North American Mortuary Studies” (1981) (7)
Plotting the downfall of society (2004) (6)
Depletion vs. innovation the fundamental question of sustainability (2017) (6)
Riverine settlement in the evolution of prehistoric land-use systems in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico (1996) (6)
Cultural Conflict and Sustainable Development: Managing Subsistence Hunting in Alaska (1997) (6)
A Framework for Archaeology and Sustainability (2002) (5)
An Ahupua'a Study: The 1971 Archaeological Work at Kaloko Ahupua'a, North Kona, Hawai'i (Archaeology at Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park) (1991) (5)
Pashtun Social Structure: Cultural Perceptions and Segmentary Lineage Organization - Understanding and Working Within Pashtun Society (2011) (5)
Introduction: Ecosystem Research in a Human Context (1995) (4)
Archaeology of Kaloko: A Generalized Model of a Hawaiian Community's Social Organization and Adaptation (1977) (4)
Energy Gain and the Evolution of Organization (2019) (4)
Climatic Fluctuations and Resource Procurement in the Santa Ynez Valley (1971) (4)
Understanding sustainability through history : Resources and complexity (2017) (3)
Offshore Drilling and Production: A Short History (2012) (3)
Cultural Resources Overview: Central New Mexico (1987) (3)
Theory and Model Building: Refining Survey Strategies for Locating Prehistoric Heritage Resources (1984) (3)
Introduction and Research Design (2002) (3)
Concluding essay 1 (2018) (3)
Perspectives on the Northern Mogollon Boundary Phenomenon (1984) (3)
Forward: Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements (2008) (3)
Review of "Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall", by Peter Turchin (2004) (3)
Population Dynamics on the Santa Barbara Coast (1977) (3)
Historical Science, Heritage Resources, and Ecosystem Management (1999) (2)
Understanding sustainability through history (2017) (2)
Our Energy and Complexity Dilemma: Prospects for the Future (2012) (2)
Planning for Obsolescence in Integrated Research (1988) (2)
Energy, Resources, and the Semantics of Sustainability (2006) (2)
Dark Ages' in Archaeology/Systems Collapse (2005) (2)
Complexity, Collapse, and Sustainable Problem Solving (2001) (2)
The Politics of Regional Research in Conservation Archaeology (1987) (2)
Managing for Diversity in Heritage Values (1996) (2)
Archeology of the Farmington sector of the Elena Gallegos project (1997) (2)
Criteria and Indicators for Ecological and Social System Sustainability With System Management Objectives (2000) (2)
States: Theories of the Collapse of States (1996) (1)
Energy, transport, and consumption in the Industrial Revolution (2019) (1)
Rio Grande Basin and the Modern World: Understanding Scale and Context (1999) (1)
Paleoclimates and the Mande (2004) (1)
Perspectives on the Abandonment of the Northern Tularosa Basin (1985) (1)
Forces of Reaction and Changes of Scale in the World System of States (1994) (1)
What Does It Mean to be Sustainable (2008) (1)
Why Civilizations Collapse (1991) (1)
Human Resource Use: Timing and Implications for Sustainability (2009) (1)
Cahokia: Urbanization, Metabolism, and Collapse (2019) (1)
Survey of the Wright Spring Watershed (1981) (1)
What Happened at the Macondo Well (2012) (1)
The Energy–Complexity Spiral (2012) (1)
Energy and Symbolism in Mortuary Practices (1982) (1)
Cultural Influences on Intertemporal Reasoning: An Annotated Bibliography (2011) (1)
Perspectives for Understanding the Abandonment of the Méma (2005) (1)
The Kaloko Cemetery (D13-14) (1991) (1)
Modelling the mysterious Maya (2018) (1)
Societal Metabolism in the Roman Empire (2003) (1)
Introduction: Ecosystem research in a human context [chapter 1] (1995) (1)
Special Issue: Towards a More Sustainable Agriculture (2011) (1)
Development of Predictive Models for the Distribution of Prehistoric Cultural Resources On Southwestern Forests (1984) (1)
A Cultural Evolution in the Jornada Mogollon Area (1979) (1)
Scale and Metabolism in Ancient Cities (2019) (1)
Strong and Weak Patterning in Southwestern Prehistory: the FormationofPuebloan Archaeology (1994) (1)
1. THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM (2003) (1)
Social and Ecological Systems in Convergent Evolution: Local Impacts of World Systems (2003) (0)
Competition, Expansion, and Reaction: The Foundations of Contemporary Conflict (1998) (0)
What Does it Mean for Sustainability (2011) (0)
Complexity and Sustainability in Human Systems (2004) (0)
Energy Gain and Future Organization (2006) (0)
Testing Site of PL 1A (1995) (0)
Review of "Late Hohokam Prehistory in Southern Arizona", by David E. Doyel (1983) (0)
Complexity, Collapse, and Sustainability in Ancient and Modern Societies (2008) (0)
American Collapse: Fear and Hope at the End of an Era (2012) (0)
Energy Gain and Complexity: Implications for Human Ecology in the Amazon Basin (2005) (0)
Review of "Archaeological Surveys of Chaco Canyon", by Alden C. Hayes (1991) (0)
Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed 1985 Bluewater Site Preparation Areas Parcels C, D, F, G, H, I, and J, MT. Taylor Ranger District, Cibola National Forest, New Mexico (1985) (0)
Special section: climates of the Mande (2004) (0)
Cultural Resources on the Lincoln National Forest (1981) (0)
Review of "Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire" (2010) (0)
2. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Framework (2003) (0)
Collapse and Sustainability: Lessons from History (2010) (0)
Energy Gain and Complexity: Using the Human and Ecological Past to Understand our Future (2014) (0)
Complexity, Collapse, Sustainability (2014) (0)
Inlow Cabin Removal Project, Mountainair Ranger District, Cibola National Forest, Torrance County, New Mexico (1993) (0)
Resource Trends: The Fundamental Question of Sustainability (2014) (0)
Excavation of Site PL 3A (1995) (0)
Energy and Innovation: Contexts for Our Future (2010) (0)
Reviewed Work: Anthropogenic Climatic Change by M. I. Budyko, Yu. A. Izrael (1994) (0)
Chapter 1 Introduction : Ecosystem Research in a Human Context (2011) (0)
Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee (eds): Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire (2010) (0)
Management Summary and Recommendations (1988) (0)
The Development and Collapse of Political Complexity at Cahokia in the American Midwest (2002) (0)
Site Allocation Guidelines for New Mexico Forests (1984) (0)
Excavations at the Mayhill Administrative Site: Implications for Jornada Mogollon Social Organization (1978) (0)
Energy, Problem Solving, and Sustainability in the Roman Empire (2005) (0)
Archaeological Analysis of the Cedar Creek Site, Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico (1978) (0)
Archaeological Datat from Coastal Kaloko: Site Excavation Decriptions and Site-specific Interpretations, Part B. Coastal Excavations (1991) (0)
FuZha SheHui de BengKui (2010) (0)
A Perspecitve on Systems Modeling in Southwestern Archaeology (1994) (0)
HAGAR 2011 2 THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE CONCEPT In 1983 , historian and anthropologist (2011) (0)
Hunter-Gatherer Territorial Organization (1975) (0)
PALAEOCLIMATES AND THE MANDE (2023) (0)
Review of "Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History (2008) (0)
The Energy That Runs the World (2012) (0)
Complexity and Collapse (2011) (0)
Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History (2008) (0)
Theory Building: Foragers in the Southwestern Forests (1984) (0)
6. Ecosystems, Energy Flows, Evolution, and Emergence (2003) (0)
Review of "Mortuary Variability: An Archaeological Investigation", by John M. O'Shea (1985) (0)
Scale, Information, and Power in Ages of Globalization (2004) (0)
The Development and Collapse of Prehistoric Societies: A Perspective from Central New Mexico (1988) (0)
Energy and Sociopolitical Collapse (2004) (0)
Sustainability and Collapse: Complexity and Energy from Ancient to Modern Societies (2015) (0)
Archeology: Mortuary Variability: An Archaeological Investigation (1985) (0)
Introduction: the Méma Project (2005) (0)
Sociopolitical Collapse, Energy and (2004) (0)
7. Retrospect and Prospects (2003) (0)
Killing Civilization: A Reassessment of Early Urbanization and Its Consequences. Justin Jennings. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016, 376 pp. $75.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8263-5660-4. (2016) (0)
Energy Gain and the Evolution of Complexity (2013) (0)
Total reboot: Re-imagining civilisation (2011) (0)
Investigations in the Upland-Forest Zone, Part A. The Archaeological Survey of the Upland-Forest Zone (1991) (0)
Moon Myung ay Bung Geh (1999) (0)
Investigations in the Middle Zone, Part A. Archaeologiacl Survey of the Middle Zone Inland of the Highway (1991) (0)
Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Copperton Site Preparation Project, Block D, MT. Taylor Ranger District, Cibola National Forest, New Mexico (1984) (0)
Sustainability and Complex Problem Solving (2004) (0)
Radical Transitions from Fossil Fuel to Renewables: A Change of Posture (2017) (0)
Critical Mass : A Prescription for Evolution (2013) (0)
Symbolism, Interaction, and Cultural Boundaries: The Anaszi-Mogollon Transition Sone in West-Central New Mexico (1982) (0)
Can Innovation Provide a Sustainable Lifestyle (2010) (0)
Ecological vs. Social Complexity: An Anthropological Perspective on a Science of Sustainability (2005) (0)
The Fundamental Question (2013) (0)
Theory Building: Introduction and Background (1984) (0)
The Fundamental Elements of Being Sustainable (2008) (0)
Systems Thinking and Irreducible Uncertainty (2007) (0)
Review of "Anthropogenic Climate Change" (1994) (0)
Why the Gulf Disaster Happened (2012) (0)
Book Review: Putting Ecology Squarely in Sustainability (2004) (0)
Synthesis and Evaluation (1992) (0)
Review of "Archaeological Investigations at Molpa, San Diego County, California", by D. L. True (1976) (0)
Globalization Then and Now: Increasing Scale Reduces Local Sustainability (2006) (0)
4. The Criteria for Observation and Modeling (2003) (0)
Interview in What Now, with Ken Rose (2010) (0)
Blind Spot: Peak oil & the coming global crisis (2009) (0)
A Functional Analysis of the Croton Creek Lithic Scatter, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma (1979) (0)
Water and Society from Ancient Times to the Present Concluding Essay (2018) (0)
Resource Sustainability and Innovation (2015) (0)
Integrated Research Designs: A Tool to Manage the Past (1988) (0)
Simulation Modelling of Inland Chumash Economic Interaction (1972) (0)
The Significance of Oil in the Gulf of Mexico (2012) (0)
5. Biomes and the Biosphere (2003) (0)
Sustainability Challenges, Past and Future (2011) (0)
Clamte, History, and Human Action (2000) (0)
The Development of Social Complexity: Models of Collapse, Resiliency, and Sustainability (2003) (0)
Shaping and Suppressing the Archaeology: The Key Concepts (2005) (0)
Investigations in the Middle Zone, Part B. Archaeological Excavations Seaward of the Highway (1991) (0)
Foundations and Context of Contemporary Conflict (2002) (0)
Complexity and Problem Solving, Part I: Social Complexity. (2003) (0)
Agriculture and the energy-complexity spiral (2016) (0)
Sustaining Dryland Forests: Fundamental Questions (2007) (0)
Are Complex Societies Sustainable? Perceiving Fundamental Issues (1994) (0)
Cultural Resources Management in the Unites States Forest Service (1987) (0)
3. Complexity and Social Sustainability: Experience (2003) (0)
Energy Gain, Organization, and Sustainability (2008) (0)
Biophysical Economics: Collapse and Sustainability (2009) (0)
Why Complexity Grows (2004) (0)
Problem Solving and the Evolution of Complexity (2012) (0)
Depletion and Innovation: The Sustainability Balancing Act (2014) (0)
Critical Analysis and Cultural Landscapes in Heritage Management (1997) (0)
Book Review of Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths, by Guy D. Middleton (2018) (0)
Innovation in the City: Energy and Resource Efficiency (2015) (0)
Archaeology, History and Sustainability Commentary by Dr. Joseph Tainter (2001) (0)
The Jevons Paradox in Everyday Life (2008) (0)
The Logic of Collapse: Do Ethics Cause Catastrophes? (2009) (0)
Review of "The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation", by Sing C. Chew (2008) (0)
The Mountainair Lithic Scatters Revisited: A Consideration of Research Design in Archaeological Experimentation (1991) (0)
Review of Five Fascicles of "The Archaeology of York" (1992) (0)
Energy Gain and Organization (2009) (0)
Sustainability: Values, Resources, and Problem Solving (2009) (0)
Historical Studies in Collapse, Resiliency, and Sustainability (2002) (0)
Breath of Life : Our Future, Our Planet (2015) (0)
Southwestern Contribution to the Understanding of Core-Peripery Relations (1994) (0)
Complexity and Collapse: What is the Role of Climate? (2014) (0)
Comparative Responses to Climate Change: Comments on the Symposium "The Ancient Mande Landscape: Climate Change and Human Response." (1998) (0)
Introduction to the Plenary Session "Archaeology and Contemporary Environmental Change." (1998) (0)
Cahokia: the Cost and Meaning of Complexity (1998) (0)
Material Culture Distributions in Time and Space: Shifting Expressions of Cultural Identity in the Prehistoric Southwestern United States (2002) (0)
The Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Proximate and Ultimate Causes (2011) (0)
Sustainability, Complexity, and Problem Solving: Lessons from the Roman Empire (2007) (0)
Energy, Complexity, and Innovation (2013) (0)
Ecological Integrity and Problem Solving in Natural Resource Management (2002) (0)
Energy: Thinking Long Term (2008) (0)
The Benefits and Costs of Complexity (2012) (0)
Sustainability in Society and Archaeology (2019) (0)
Energy Transitions and Financial Crises, Past and Future (2009) (0)
Explaining Why Complex Societies Collapse (1994) (0)
Anthropogenic Climatic Change. M. I. Budyko and Yu. A. Izrael, editors. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1991 (Russian edition © 1987). xiv + 485 pp., figures, tables, bibliography. ’60.00 (cloth). (1994) (0)
Review of "Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology" (1985) (0)
Productivity of Invention (2012) (0)
Comparative Responses to Climate Change (2023) (0)
Co-Evolution of Complexity and Problem Solving (2004) (0)

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