Modelling Nature

Author : Sharon E. Kingsland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226437280

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Modeling Nature by Sharon E. Kingsland Pdf

The first history of population ecology traces two generations of science and scientists from the opening of the twentieth century through 1970. Kingsland chronicles the careers of key figures and the field's theoretical, empirical, and institutional development, with special attention to tensions between the descriptive studies of field biologists and later mathematical models. This second edition includes a new afterword that brings the book up to date, with special attention to the rise of "the new natural history" and debates about ecology's future as a large-scale scientific enterprise.

Author : Edward Gillman,Michael Gillman
Publisher : CABI
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786393104

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Modelling Nature by Edward Gillman,Michael Gillman Pdf

This short textbook introduces students to the concept of describing natural systems using mathematical models. We highlight the variety of ways in which natural systems lend themselves to mathematical description and the importance of models in revealing fundamental processes. The process of science via the building, testing and use of models (theories) is described and forms the structure of the book. The book covers a broad range from the molecular to ecosystems and whole-Earth phenomena. Themes running through the chapters include scale (temporal and spatial), change (linear and nonlinear), emergent phenomena and uncertainty. Mathematical descriptions are kept to a minimum and we illustrate mechanisms and results in graphical form wherever possible. Essential mathematical details are described fully, with the use of boxes. The mathematics supports but does not lead the text.

Author : Neil Sang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108428934

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Modelling Nature-based Solutions by Neil Sang Pdf

This book will help decision makers model nature-based solutions to the complex problem of sustainable development, locally and globally.

Author : Roman Frigg,James Nguyen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030451530

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Modelling Nature: An Opinionated Introduction to Scientific Representation by Roman Frigg,James Nguyen Pdf

This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems. Representation is important because it allows scientists to study a model to discover features of reality. The authors provide a map of the conceptual landscape surrounding the issue of scientific representation, arguing that it consists of multiple intertwined problems. They provide an encyclopaedic overview of existing attempts to answer these questions, and they assess their strengths and weaknesses. The book also presents a comprehensive statement of their alternative proposal, the DEKI account of representation, which they have developed over the last few years. They show how the account works in the case of material as well as non-material models; how it accommodates the use of mathematics in scientific modelling; and how it sheds light on the relation between representation in science and art. The issue of representation has generated a sizeable literature, which has been growing fast in particular over the last decade. This makes it hard for novices to get a handle on the topic because so far there is no book-length introduction that would guide them through the discussion. Likewise, researchers may require a comprehensive review that they can refer to for critical evaluations. This book meets the needs of both groups.

Author : Douglas R. Weiner
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0822972158

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Models of Nature by Douglas R. Weiner Pdf

Models of Nature studies the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s—Lenin's rule to the rise of Stalin. This new edition includes an afterword by the author that reflects upon the study's impact and discusses advances in the field since the book was first published.

Author : Kirsten Hastrup,Martin Skrydstrup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780415628587

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The Social Life of Climate Change Models by Kirsten Hastrup,Martin Skrydstrup Pdf

Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled. Through analysis of predictive practices in a diversity of regions affected by climate change – including coastal India, the Cook Islands, Tibet, and the High Arctic, and various domains of scientific expertise and policy making such as ice core drilling, flood risk modelling, and coastal adaptation – the book shows how all attempts at modelling nature’s course are deeply social, and how current research in "climate" contributes to a rethinking of nature as a multiplicity of modalities that impact social life.

Author : Roman Frigg,James Nguyen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030451550

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Modelling Nature: An Opinionated Introduction to Scientific Representation by Roman Frigg,James Nguyen Pdf

This monograph offers a critical introduction to current theories of how scientific models represent their target systems. Representation is important because it allows scientists to study a model to discover features of reality. The authors provide a map of the conceptual landscape surrounding the issue of scientific representation, arguing that it consists of multiple intertwined problems. They provide an encyclopaedic overview of existing attempts to answer these questions, and they assess their strengths and weaknesses. The book also presents a comprehensive statement of their alternative proposal, the DEKI account of representation, which they have developed over the last few years. They show how the account works in the case of material as well as non-material models; how it accommodates the use of mathematics in scientific modelling; and how it sheds light on the relation between representation in science and art. The issue of representation has generated a sizeable literature, which has been growing fast in particular over the last decade. This makes it hard for novices to get a handle on the topic because so far there is no book-length introduction that would guide them through the discussion. Likewise, researchers may require a comprehensive review that they can refer to for critical evaluations. This book meets the needs of both groups.

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781847653505

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Mathematics Of Life by Ian Stewart Pdf

A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behaviour of entire organisms, how they interact and how changes in biological diversity affect the planet's ecological balance. Mathematics offers new and sometimes startling perspectives on evolution and how patterns of inheritance and population work out over time-scales ranging from millions to hundreds of years - as well as what's going on to change us right now. Ian Stewart, in characteristically clear and entertaining fashion, explores these and a whole range of pertinent issues, including how far genes control behaviour and the nature of life itself. He shows how far mathematicians and biologists are succeeding in tackling some of the most difficult scientific problems the human race has ever confronted and where their research is currently taking us.

Author : Piero Melli,Paolo Zannetti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1562520539

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Environmental Modelling by Piero Melli,Paolo Zannetti Pdf

Author : Giovanni Bennardo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 0367731096

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Cultural Models of Nature by Giovanni Bennardo Pdf

This volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas.

Author : Paul N. Findley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Environmental sciences
ISBN : 1606920340

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Environmental Modelling by Paul N. Findley Pdf

Environment models seek to re-create what occurs during some event in nature. It is much easier and practical to create computer models to run certain experiments than it is to go out and do the same experiment again and again. Computer models take equations which were usually formulated through testing under natural conditions, and put them into computer programs where they can be run quickly and easily. A model can then output the results of doing these equations into a form which can be output to a screen for the user to view. The aim is to improve the capacity to represent, understand, predict or manage the behaviour of environmental systems at all practical scales. This book presents the latest research from around the globe.

Author : Arthur C. Petersen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781466500679

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Simulating Nature by Arthur C. Petersen Pdf

Computer simulation has become an important means for obtaining knowledge about nature. The practice of scientific simulation and the frequent use of uncertain simulation results in public policy raise a wide range of philosophical questions. Most prominently highlighted is the field of anthropogenic climate change-are humans currently changing the

Author : K. A. Browning,R. J. Gurney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521560578

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Global Energy and Water Cycles by K. A. Browning,R. J. Gurney Pdf

A comprehensive treatment of models and processes related to water fluxes for meteorologists, hydrologists and oceanographers.

Author : Neil A. Gershenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521570956

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The Nature of Mathematical Modeling by Neil A. Gershenfeld Pdf

This is a book about the nature of mathematical modeling, and about the kinds of techniques that are useful for modeling. The text is in four sections. The first covers exact and approximate analytical techniques; the second, numerical methods; the third, model inference based on observations; and the last, the special role of time in modeling. Each of the topics in the book would be the worthy subject of a dedicated text, but only by presenting the material in this way is it possible to make so much material accessible to so many people. Each chapter presents a concise summary of the core results in an area. The text is complemented by extensive worked problems.

Author : John A. Adam
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781400841011

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Mathematics in Nature by John A. Adam Pdf

From rainbows, river meanders, and shadows to spider webs, honeycombs, and the markings on animal coats, the visible world is full of patterns that can be described mathematically. Examining such readily observable phenomena, this book introduces readers to the beauty of nature as revealed by mathematics and the beauty of mathematics as revealed in nature. Generously illustrated, written in an informal style, and replete with examples from everyday life, Mathematics in Nature is an excellent and undaunting introduction to the ideas and methods of mathematical modeling. It illustrates how mathematics can be used to formulate and solve puzzles observed in nature and to interpret the solutions. In the process, it teaches such topics as the art of estimation and the effects of scale, particularly what happens as things get bigger. Readers will develop an understanding of the symbiosis that exists between basic scientific principles and their mathematical expressions as well as a deeper appreciation for such natural phenomena as cloud formations, halos and glories, tree heights and leaf patterns, butterfly and moth wings, and even puddles and mud cracks. Developed out of a university course, this book makes an ideal supplemental text for courses in applied mathematics and mathematical modeling. It will also appeal to mathematics educators and enthusiasts at all levels, and is designed so that it can be dipped into at leisure.