For Further Reading:

Books

Sarewitz, D., R. A. Pielke, Jr., and R. Byerly (eds.), 2000: Prediction: Decision-Making and the Future of Nature. Island Press: Washington, DC. (A book in collaboration with Dan Sarewitz and Rad Byerly is available April, 2000. For more information have a look at the project web site.)

Sarewitz, D., 1996: Frontiers of Illusion : Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. (For more information have a look at the book review found in Scientific American).

Pielke, Jr., R. A., and R. A. Pielke, Sr. (eds.), 2000: Storms: a volume in the nine-volume series of Natural Hazards & Disasters Major Works published by Routledge Press as a contribution to the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.

Pielke, Jr., R. A., and R. A. Pielke, Sr., 1997: Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impacts on Society. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 279 pp.

Journal Articles

Pielke, Jr., R. A., R. Klein, and D. Sarewitz, 2000: Turning the Big Knob: An Evaluation of the Use of Energy Policy to Modulate Future Climate Impacts. Energy and Environment. (in press).

Pielke, Jr., R. A., and D. Sarewitz, 2000: Winning and losing the global warming debate. Earth Affairs.

Pielke, Jr., R.A., and M.W. Downton, 2000: Precipitation and damaging floods: Trends in the United States, 1932-1997. Journal of Climate 13(20), 3625-3637..

Pielke Jr., R.A., 1999: Nine fallacies of floods. Climatic Change, 42, 413-438.

Pielke, Jr., R. A., and M. Downton, 1999: U.S. Trends in Streamflow and Precipitation: Using Societal Impact Data to Address an Apparent Paradox. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 80, 1435-1436.

Pielke, Jr., R. A., D. Sarewitz, R. Byerly, and D. Jamieson, 1999: Prediction in the earth sciences: Use and misuse in policy making. EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Society, 80, #309 ff.

Kunkel, K., R. A. Pielke Jr., S. A. Changnon, 1999: Temporal fluctuations in weather and climate extremes that cause economic and human health impacts: a review. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 80, 6, 1077-1098.

Landsea, C. L., R. A. Pielke, Jr., A. Mestas-Nuñez, and J. Knaff, 1999: Atlantic Basin hurricanes: Indices of climatic changes. Climate Change, 42, 89-129. Reprinted at pp. 89-130 in T. Karl, N. Nicholls, and A. Ghazi (eds.), Weather and Climate Extremes: Changes, Variations, and a Perspective From the Insurance Industry. 1999, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Sarewitz, D. and R. A. Pielke, Jr., 1999: Prediction in Science and Policy. Technology in Society, 21,121-133. Reprinted as Chapter 3 in D. Sarewitz, R. A. Pielke, Jr., and R. Byerly, (eds.), 2000 Prediction: Decision Making and the Future of Nature. Island Press.

Pielke, Jr., R. A., 1998: Rethinking the role of adaptation in climate policy. Global Environmental Change, 8(2), 159-170.

Pielke, Jr., R. A., and R. Byerly, Jr., 1998: Beyond basic and applied. Physics Today, 51(2), 42-46.

Pielke, Jr., R. A., and C. W. Landsea, 1998: Normalized Hurricane Damages in the United States: 1925-1995. Weather and Forecasting, 13, 351-361.

Betsill, M. M., and R. A. Pielke, Jr., 1998: Blurring the boundaries: Domestic and International ozone politics and lessons for climate change. International Environmental Affairs, 10(3), 147-172.

Pielke Jr., R. A., 1997b: Reframing the U.S. Hurricane Problem. Society and Natural Resources, 10, 485-499.

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