Diamond, Jared (1937– )
A professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, known globally for his inquiries into how societies use and are affected by their natural resource base. Diamond has a background in the life sciences and is among the few in contemporary academic geography who addresses very large questions by drawing on very wide bodies of knowledge from across the environmental and social sciences, as well as the humanities. His intellectual ambitions have led some to accuse him of making weak and unsupportable generalizations about human-environment relationships past and present. His most famous books are ... ...
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