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Crashes, crises, and calamities : how we can use science to read the early-warning signs / Len Fisher.

Title
  1. Crashes, crises, and calamities : how we can use science to read the early-warning signs / Len Fisher.
Published by
  1. New York : Basic Books, c2011.
Author
  1. Fisher, Len.

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Description
  1. xviii, 233 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. SCIENCE / General
  2. Accidents > Prevention
  3. Natural disasters > Forecasting
  4. Science > History
  5. Science > Social aspects
  6. Scientists
Genre/Form
  1. History
  2. History.
Contents
  1. A potted pre-history of prognostication -- How disasters happen -- Imminent catastrophes : reading the signs.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.