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Crashes, crises, and calamities : how we can use science to read the early-warning signs / Len Fisher.
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Fisher, Len
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English
Published/Created
New York : Basic Books, c2011.
Description
xviii, 233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Lewis Library - Stacks
HV675 .F49 2011
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Accidents
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Prevention
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Natural disasters
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Forecasting
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Summary note
Drawing on ecology and biology, math and physics, the author offers four fundamental tools that scientists and engineers use to forecast the likelihood of sudden change: stability, catastrophe, complexity, and game theories.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. A potted pre-history of prognostication. Do animals have crystal balls?
The future eclipsed
Galileo's hell
Pt. 2. How disasters happen. The stress of it all
Runaway disaster
The balance of nature and the nature of balance
Pt. 3. Imminent catastrophes : reading the signs. The chaotic ecology of dragons
Teetering on the brink of catastrophe
Models and supermodels
Beware of mathematicians
Weak signals as major early-warning signs
Summary : The future of forecasting.
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ISBN
9780465021024 (hardback)
0465021026 (hardback)
9780465023356 (ebook)
0465023355 (ebook)
LCCN
2010048289
OCLC
657595615
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Crashes, crises, and calamities [electronic resource] : how we can use science to read the early-warning signs / Len Fisher.
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