Useless arithmetic : why scientists can't predict the future / Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarv...
Useless arithmetic : why scientists can't predict the future / Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarv...
Useless arithmetic : why scientists can't predict the future / Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
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N363.705/13
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Language
English
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Physical content
xv, 230 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Mathematical fishing -- 2. Mathematical models : escaping from reality -- 3. Yucca Mountain : a million years of certainty -- 4. How fast the rising sea? -- 5. Following a wayward rule -- 6. Beaches in an expected universe -- 7. Giant cups of poison -- 8. Invasive plants : an environmental apocal...
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"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...
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Useless arithmetic : why scientists can't predict the future / Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-221) and index.
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N363.705/13
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74VKOJdvDb5A
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ISBN
0231132123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231132121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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363.705
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991022452669702626
