Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future Format:Paperback and scholars and artists

and scholars and artists

the renowned psychologist shares his findings and debunks numerous popular beliefs

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

ISBN-13: 9780231114394

Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future Format:Paperback and scholars and artistsNoted 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