Useless Arithmetic
Subtitle: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: December 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780231132121
Subjects: Mathematical modelling; The Environment; Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Environmental policy; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Science/Mathematics; Science; Environmental Studies; Mathematics; Mathematical models; Environmental protection; Science / General; Ecology; General; Decision making
First sentence: More than five hundred years ago, fishers from Portugal and the Basque region of Spain began fishing the fabled Grand Banks of Canada.