Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (also titled
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive) is a 2005 book by
Jared M. Diamond,
professor of
geography and
physiology at
University of California, Los Angeles. Diamond's book deals with "
societal collapses involving an
environmental component, and in some cases also contributions of
climate change, hostile neighbors, and
trade partners, plus questions of societal responses" (p. 15). In writing the book Diamond intended that its readers should learn from
history (p. 23).