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Useless Arithmetic

Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future

Autor: Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Vydavatel: Columbia University Press
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 14-20 dnů
2 911 Kč
Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the q...

Informace o knize

Autor
Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2007
Stránek
248
EAN
9780231132121
ISBN
0231132123
Enbook ID
04558155
Vydavatel
Columbia University Press
Hmotnost
465
Rozměry
162 x 235 x 24

Kompletní popis

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. Writing for the general, nonmathematician reader and using examples from throughout the environmental sciences, Pilkey and 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 a riveting account of the extinction of the North Atlantic cod on the Grand Banks of Canada. Next they engage in a general discussion of the limitations of many models across a broad array of crucial environmental subjects. 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. A timely and urgent book written in an engaging style, Useless Arithmetic evaluates the assumptions behind models, the nature of the field data, and the dialogue between modelers and their "customers."

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