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An edition of Useless arithmetic (2006)

Useless arithmetic

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"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."--BOOK JACKET

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Columbia University Press
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English
Pages
230

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Subjects
Mathematics, Ecology, Environmental protection, Environmental policy, Mathematical models, Decision making, Mathematical modelling, The Environment, Public Policy - Environmental Policy, Environmental Conservation & Protection - General, Science/Mathematics, Science, Environmental Studies, Science / General, General, Mathematisches Modell, Umweltschutz, Miljöskydd, Miljöpolitik, Ekologi, Matematiska modeller, Ecology, mathematical models

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2007, Columbia University Press
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Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
December 8, 2006, Columbia University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-221) and index.

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TD171.8 .P55 2007, TD171.8.P55 2006

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xv, 230 p. :
Number of pages
230

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OL15627980M
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0231132123
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9780231132121
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2006009632
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65207068
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2355114
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624021

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