collapsologyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French collapsologie, collapse +‎ -ology.

名詞

collapsology (uncountable)

1. (uncommon) The transdisciplinary study of the collapse of industrial civilization, and what might succeed it.
   • 2020, Andrew Brown, transl., How Everything Can Collapse […] , John Wiley & Sons, translation of Comme tout peut s'effondrer […] by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens, →ISBN:

     This will be the true purpose of collapsology, which we define as the transdisciplinary study of the collapse of our industrial civilization, and what might succeed it, based on the two cognitive modes of reason and intuition and on recognized scientific studies.

   • 2020 October 11, Laura Spinney, “‘Humans weren’t always here. We could disappear’: meet the collapsologists”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     For the authors of the Jean Jaurès study, the political scientist Jérôme Fourquet and the pollster Jean-Philippe Dubrulle, collapsology is driven at least in part by economic factors.

   • 2023, Robert R. Janes, Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat‎, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

     Collapsology has been likened to the cultural equivalent of an advance directive in the medical world, whereby you specify what actions should be taken for your health if you are no longer able to make decisions […]

派生語

• collapsologist