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Earth Surface Systems

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  • © 1985

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Authors:
  1. Richard J. Huggett

    1. School of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, England

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Physical Environment (SSPENV, volume 1)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Systems and Models

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      Pages 3-13

  3. Conceptual Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Simple and Complex Systems

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      Pages 17-29

    3. Form and Process Systems

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      Pages 30-44

  4. Mathematical Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Deductive Stochastic Models

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      Pages 47-77

    3. Inductive Stochastic Models

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      Pages 78-101

    4. Statistical Models

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      Pages 102-134

    5. Deterministic Models of Water and Solutes

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      Pages 135-160

    6. Deterministic Models of Slopes and Sediments

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      Pages 161-197

    7. Dynamical Systems Models

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      Pages 198-232

    8. Conclusion and Prospect

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      Pages 233-242

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 243-270
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About this book

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".

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, England

    Richard J. Huggett

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Earth Surface Systems

  • Authors: Richard J. Huggett

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Physical Environment

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82496-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-82498-2Published: 15 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-82496-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0937-3047

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 270

  • Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Sedimentology

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