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Useless Arithmetic Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
by Pilkey, Orrin H., Pilkey-Jarvis, Linda
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- ISBN-13: 9780231132121
- ISBN: 0231132123
- Publication Date: 2007
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Using examples from the environmental sciences, this work shows how unquestioned faith in mathematical models can blind us to the hard data and sound judgement of scientific fieldwork. It tells how the over reliance on so-called expert models hastened the extinction of the North Atlantic cod on the Grand Banks of Canada.Pilkey, Orrin H. is the author of 'Useless Arithmetic Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future', published 2007 under ISBN 9780231132121 and ISBN 0231132123.
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