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  title info:
    title: Prediction
    sub title: science, decision making, and the future of nature
  name:
    name part: Sarewitz, Daniel R.
  name:
    name part: Pielke, Roger A.
    name part: Jr
    name part: 1968-
  name:
    name part: Byerly, Radford.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: Based upon ten case studies, Prediction explores how science-based predictions guide policy making and what this means in terms of global warming, biogenetically modifying organisms and polluting the environment with chemicals.
  table of contents: Introduction : Death, taxes, and environmental policy / Daniel Sarewitz, Roger A. Pielke, Jr., and Radford Byerly, Jr. -- Prediction in science and policy / Daniel Sarewitz and Roger A. Pielke, Jr. -- Why predict? Historical perspectives on prediction in earth science / Naomi Oreskes -- Uncertainty, judgment, and error in prediction / Thomas R. Stewart -- Short-term weather prediction : an orchestra in need of a conductor / William H. Hooke and Roger Pielke, Jr. -- Flood prediction : immersed in the quagmire of national flood mitigation strategy / Stanley A. Changnon -- The asteroid/comet impact hazard : Homo sapiens as dinosaur? / Clark R. Chapman -- Predicting earthquakes : science, pseudoscience, and public policy paradox / Joanne M. Nigg -- What you know can hurt you : predicting the behavior of nourished beaches / Orrin H. Pilkey -- Is this number to your liking? Water quality predictions in mining impact studies / Robert E. Moran -- From tin roof to torn wet blanket : predicting and observing groundwater movement at a proposed nuclear waste site / Daniel Metlay -- Oil and gas resource appraisal : diminishing reserves, increasing supplies / Donald L. Gautier -- Predictive modeling of acid rain : obstacles to generating useful information / Charles Herrick -- Prediction and other approaches to climate change policy / Steve Rayner -- Alternatives to prediction / Ronald D. Brunner -- Prediction in society / Dale Jamieson -- Prediction and characteristic times / Radford Byerly, Jr. -- A decision framework for prediction in environmental policy / Charles Herrick and J. Michael Pendleton -- Decision making and the future of nature : understanding and using predictions / Roger A. Pielke, Jr., Daniel Sarewitz, and Radford Byerly, Jr.
  note: edited by Daniel Sarewitz, Roger A. Pielke, Jr., and Radford Byerly, Jr.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science and state
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Technology and state
  subject:
    topic: Decision Making
  subject:
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Prediction
  subject:
    topic: Planning
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Environmental policy
  subject:
    topic: Resource management
  subject:
    topic: Risk assessment
  subject:
    topic: Social benefit
  subject:
    topic: Politics
  subject:
    topic: Interdisciplinary research
  subject:
    topic: Uncertainty
  subject:
    topic: Politique scientifique et technique
  subject:
    topic: Prise de décision
  subject:
    topic: Prévision
  subject:
    topic: decision making
  subject:
    topic: Technology and state
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Science and state
  subject:
    topic: Prognose
  subject:
    topic: Naturwissenschaften
  subject:
    topic: Aufsatzsammlung
  subject:
    topic: Politik
  subject:
    topic: Umweltpolitik
  classification: Q125 .P928 2000
  classification: 363.1/07
  classification: 003.2
  classification: 159.961.3
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    title info:
      title: Prediction
    origin info:
      publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©2000
    identifier: (OCoLC)647076790
  identifier: 1559637757
  identifier: 9781559637756
  identifier: 1559637765
  identifier: 9781559637763
  identifier: 00008179
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 000128
    record change date: 20240808153519.8
    record identifier: in00004815721
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng