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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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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 modelsEdition | Availability |
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Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
2007, Columbia University Press
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Useless arithmetic: why environmental scientists can't predict the future
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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