Useless Arithmetic
Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic and sometimes false assumptions, these models often yield answers that support unwise policies. 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 co…
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Weitere Autoren: Pilkey-Jarvis, Linda
- ISBN: 978-0-231-13213-8
- EAN: 9780231132138
- Produktnummer: 19414085
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.4 cm x D1.5 cm 316 g
- Abbildungen: 46 illus.
- Gewicht: 316
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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