Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future

by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231132123
• ISBN13: 9780231132121
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher