Crashes, crises, and calamities [electronic resource] : how we can use science to read the early-warning signs / Len Fisher.
Fisher, Len.
2011
HV675 .F49 2011eb
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Title Crashes, crises, and calamities [electronic resource] : how we can use science to read the early-warning signs / Len Fisher.
Author Fisher, Len.
ISBN 9780465023356 (electronic book)
9780465021024
0465021026
Publication Details New York : Basic Books, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 233 p.) : ill.
Call Number HV675 .F49 2011eb
Summary 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.
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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