Book reviews

ALTERNATIVES TO GROWTH, I, edited by Dennis L. Meadows, Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass. 1977, pp. xxvii + 405 ($16.50).

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS: AN INTRODUCTION FOR STUDENTS OF THE RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES by Sir Alan Cottrell and T. R. E. South‐wood, Edward Arnold, London, 1978, pp. 66 (paper £1.95).

ENVIRONMENTAL USE AND THE MARKET by H. H. Macaulay and B. Yandle, Lexington, Massachusetts and Toronto, D. C. Heath and Company, 1977, xii + 145 (£8.75).

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: SCOPE REPORT 10 edited by M. W. Holdgate and G. F. White, London, New York, Sydney and Toronto, John Wiley and Sons, 1977 pp. xviii + 224 (£9.50).

SIMULATION MODELLING OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS: SCOPE REPORT 9 edited by F. N. Frenkiel and D. W. Goodall, Chichester, New York, Brisbane and Toronto, John Wiley and Sons, 1978, pp. xvi + 112 (£4.95).

INTERNATIONAL RESOURCE FLOWS edited by G. Garvey and L. A. Garvey, Lexington, Massachusetts and Toronto, D.C. Heath and Company, 1977, pp. xvii + 179 (£10.65).

THE SOCIAL INCIDENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION edited by Brian J. L. Berry, Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1977 (£16.25).

CLEANING UP—THE COSTS OF REFINERY POLLUTION CONTROL edited by J. N. Boothe, M. Robertson and Co. Ltd., London, 1978, pp. 112 (£9.15).

EVALUATION OF CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MUNICIPAL WASTE TREATMENT, E.R.D.A. Technical Information Centre, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A., 1977 ($9.50).

THE ORGANISATION AND EFFICIENCY OF SOLID WASTE COLLECTION by E. S. Savas, Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass., 1977 (£10.00).

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL. ASSESSING THE IMPACTS AND COSTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS by R. A. Luken and E. H. Pechan. Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1977, pp. 182 (£12.40).

HOW TO DISPOSE OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND INDUSTRIAL WASTES (Environmental technology handbook No. 4) by Philip W. Powers, Noyes Data Corporation, 1976, pp. xiii + 497, no index ($48.00).

THE ENVIRONMENT OF AMCHITKA ISLAND, ALASKA by M. L. Merritt and R. G. Fuller (Eds.). Technical Information Center, Energy Records and Development Administration, 1977, code number TID‐26712, pp. xi + 682 ($20.00).

ECOLOGICAL (BIOPHYSICAL) LAND CLASSIFICATION IN CANADA edited by J. Thie and G. Ironside. Proceedings of the first meeting of the Canada Committee on Ecological (Biophysical) Land Classification, May 1976. Ottawa, Ontario: Lands Directorate, Environment Canada, Ecological Land Classification Series No. 1, n.d., pp. 269 (No price).

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ASSOCIATION, PLANNING AND POLLUTION. Town and Country Planning Association, London, 1978, pp. 110 (£2.00).

THE INNER CITY—A LOCATION FOR INDUSTRY? by G. N. Mobbs, Slough Estates Ltd., Slough (U.K.), 1977, pp. 24 (No price).

WORLD RESOURCES. ENERGY, METALS, MINERAL by G. Alexandersson and B.‐I. Klevebring, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1978, pp. 248 (D.M. 36.00).

POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE by Lennart Levi and Lars Andersson, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden, 1977, pp. 142 (No price).

GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT AND OPERATIONS by I. J. Tether. Environmental Law Institute, Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts Press, 1977, pp. xvi‐+ 197 (£9.75).

GENETICS AND ADAPTATION by E. B. Ford. Edward Arnold, Studies in Biology No. 69, E. Arnold, London, 1976, pp. iv + 58 (£1.30 paper; £2.60 boards).

THE GENETIC CODE by Brian F. C. Clark, Edward Arnold Studies in Biology No. 83, E. Arnold, London, pp. iv + 74 (£3.20).