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Useless Arithmetic
Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
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Beschreibung
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 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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Orrin H. Pilkey
- Linda Pilkey-Jarvis
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2009
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 248
