Main Title |
Useless arithmetic : why environmental scientists can't predict the future / |
Author |
Pilkey, Orrin H.,
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Other Authors |
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Publisher |
Columbia University Press, |
Year Published |
2007 |
OCLC Number |
65207068 |
ISBN |
0231132123; 9780231132121; 9780231132138; 0231132131 |
Subjects |
Environmental protection--Decision making--Mathematics ;
Environmental policy--Mathematics ;
Ecology--Mathematical models ;
Umweltschutz ;
Mathematisches Modell ;
Miljèoskydd--matematiska modeller ;
Miljèopolitik--matematiska modeller ;
Ekologi--matematiska modeller
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ESAM |
TD171.8.P55 2007 |
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Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA |
03/23/2007 |
STATUS |
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Collation |
xv, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index. |
Contents Notes |
Mathematical fishing -- Mathematical models : escaping from reality -- Yucca Mountain : a million years of certainty -- How fast the rising sea? -- Following a wayward rule -- Beaches in an expected universe -- Giant cups of poison -- Invasive plants : an environmental apocalypse -- A promise unfulfilled. "The book offers fascinating case studies depicting how the seductiveness of quantitative models has led to unmanageable nuclear waste disposal practices, poisoned mining sites, unjustifiable faith in predicted sea level rise rates, bad predictions of future shoreline erosion rates, overoptimistic cost estimates of artificial beaches, and a host of other thorny problems. The authors demonstrate how many modelers have been reckless, employing fudge factors to assure "correct" answers and caring little if their models actually worked."--Jacket. |
Place Published |
New York : |
PUB Date Free Form |
c2007. |
BIB Level |
m |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
2006009632 |
Merged OCLC records |
72147157; 266078303; 286516147; 964611367 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20070321124526 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
01430cam 22003614a 45020 |