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

By: Fisher, LenMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, c2011Description: xviii, 233 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780465021024 (hardback)Subject(s): Accidents -- Prevention | Natural disasters -- Forecasting | Science -- History | Science -- Social aspects | ScientistsDDC classification: 363.34/63 LOC classification: HV675 | .F49 2011
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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