Science with a Human Face
In Honor of Roger Randall Revelle
Harvard School of Public Health (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
282 pages
978-0-674-79483-2 (ISBN)
Description
In October of 1992, the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies sponsored the Roger Revelle Memorial Symposium on Population and Environment. Two dozen eminent scientists-all friends, colleagues, or students of Roger Revelle-presented papers in a broad range of disciplines that reflect the remarkable 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 a moving introduction to the volume. This book stands as an enduring memorial to Roger Revelle's lifelong concern that scientific developments contribute to comfortable, civilized survival in all countries of this increasingly crowded world.
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 a moving introduction to the volume. This book stands as an enduring memorial to Roger Revelle's lifelong concern that scientific developments contribute to comfortable, civilized survival in all countries of this increasingly crowded world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 halftone, 24 line drawings, 19 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-79483-2 (9780674794832)
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Persons
Peter Rogers is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning at Harvard University.