Science with a Human Face: In Honor of Roger Randall Revelle - Softcover

Dorfman, Robert; Rogers, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674794834 ISBN 13: 9780674794832

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Science with a Human Face The papers presented in this book cover a broad range of disciplines. Reflecting Roger Revelle's interest in the contribution science could make to improving the lives of people in developing countries, the papers explore issues in population and environment. Full description

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Synopsis:

In October of 1992, the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies sponsored the Roger Revelle Memorial Symposium on Population and Environment. Many scientists, all friends, colleagues, or students of Roger Revelle, presented papers in a broad range of disciplines that reflect the scope of Revelle's professional and academic contributions during his lifetime. This volume is a selection of the symposium papers. A memoir of Revelle's exposure to poverty in Pakistan, igniting his interest in the contribution that science could make to improving the lives of people in developing countries, serves as an introduction to the volume. This book emphasizes Roger Revelle's lifelong concern that scientific developments contribute to comfortable, civilized survival in all countries of this increasingly crowded world.

About the Author:

Peter Rogers is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0674794834
• ISBN 13: 9780674794832
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282