Richard J Huggett

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Earth Surface Systems (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1985)Paperback - Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1985, 15 December 2011

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Springer Physical Environment
Part of Series
Springer Series in Physical Environment
Print Length
270 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
15 Dec 2011
ISBN-10
3642824986
ISBN-13
9783642824982

Description

Discussions of "systems" and the "systems approach" tend to fall into one of two categories: the panegyrical and the disparaging. Scholars who praise the systems approach do so in the belief that it is a powerful and precise method of study. Scholars who try to shoot it down fail to see any advantage in it; indeed, many deem it periIicious. Van Dyne (1980, p. 889) records a facetious comment he once heard, the gist of which ran: "In instances where there are from one to two variables in a study you have a science, where there are from four to seven variables you have an art, and where there are more than seven variables you have a system". This tilt at the systems approach is mild indeed compared with the com- ments of an anonymous reviewer of a paper by myself concerned with the systems approach as applied to the soil. The reviewer stated bluntly that he or she had no time for an approach which falsifies and belittles work that has been done and is of no use for future work. My summary of the paper opened with the seemingly innocuous sentence "The notion of the soil as a system is placed on a . formal footing by couching it in terms of dynamical systems theory".

Product Details

Author:
Richard J Huggett
Book Edition:
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1985
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
15 December 2011
Dimensions:
24.41 x 16.99 x 1.52 cm
ISBN-10:
3642824986
ISBN-13:
9783642824982
Language:
English
Location:
Berlin, Heidelberg
Pages:
270
Publisher:
Weight:
462.66 gm

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