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

Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis

February, 2007
Cloth, 248 pages, 46 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13212-1
$29.95 / £17.50

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Related Subjects

• Environmental Sciences
• Science Policy

About the Author

Orrin H. Pilkey is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology and Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. He has written numerous books, including A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands (Columbia), and is the editor of the twenty-four-volume series, Living with the Shore. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Linda Pilkey-Jarvis is a geologist in the state of Washington's Department of Ecology, where she helps manage the state's oil spills program. She lives in McCleary, Washington.

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