oh pilkey (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows light shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

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Condizione: Fair. Volume 27. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:

13 pp., 5 figs, 4 tabs, gr. 8.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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.

4°. M. 2 Ktn. u. 13 Abb. IV, 45 S. OBr. Umschl. teils randverblichen. (Geological Survey prof. paper 859). Sprache: Englisch 0 gr.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. Large oblong folio. Measures approximately 29" x 17.5". Printed photographic stiff paper wrappers, bound with a plastic clip. iv, 57pp. Includes 20 detailed topographic plates, some of which are printed on Japan paper, with particular emphasis on Cape Fear. A fine copy in the original cardboard box.

Condizione: Good. Large oblong folio. Original wraps. 2nd printing. Measures approximately x 17.5 29 inches. Original wraps iv, 57pp. Includes 20 detailed topographic plates. OCLC Number: 853024813Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books. Berkeley.