Useless arithmetic :: why environmental scientists can't predict the future /

Writing for the general, nonmathematician reader and using examples from throughout the environmental sciences, Orrin Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show how unquestioned faith in mathematical models can blind us to the hard data and sound judgment of experienced scientific fieldwork. They begin wit...

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1. Verfasser: Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934-
Weitere Verfasser: Pilkey-Jarvis, Linda
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
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Zusammenfassung:Writing for the general, nonmathematician reader and using examples from throughout the environmental sciences, Orrin Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show how unquestioned faith in mathematical models can blind us to the hard data and sound judgment of experienced scientific fieldwork. They begin with the extinction of the North Atlantic cod on the Grand Banks of Canada, and then they discuss the limitations of many models across a broad array of crucial environmental subjects. Case studies depict how the seductiveness of quantitative models has led to unmanageable nuclear waste disposa.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
ISBN:9780231506991
0231506996

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