Consider a spherical cow: A course in environmental problem solving

By John Harte

Book Overview

This book offers a variety of exciting techniques for approaching contemporary environmental problems, such as 'What was the pH of rainfall before the Industrial Revolution?'This innovative compendium... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865760861
• ISBN13: 9780865760868
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: W. Kaufmann
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great

The book does an excellent job of teaching quantitative thinking skills and posing interesting problems. Also, it has a terrific appendix with all sorts of interesting data related to biogeochemistry.

Everybody should read this book

This book provides an excellent viewpoint on physical problem solving by "thinking outside the box". I provides great approach to setting up all types of physical problems. I found the book very useful to all types of science. You don't have to be an environmental scientist to benefit from this text. The example problems are very good and the examples stand out in my memory for a long time -- very helpful for future challenges.