Book reviews

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ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FIRE IN SOUTH AFRICAN ECOSYSTEMS, edited by P. De V. Booysen and N. M. Tainton. Berlin etc: Springer‐Verlag 1984, 426 pp. Ecological Studies 48.

HERBICIDES IN WAR. THE LONG‐TERM ECOLOGICAL AND HUMAN CONSEQUENCES, edited by A. H. Westing. London and Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1984. 210 pp. (£15).

KEY ENVIRONMENTS. SAHARA DESERT, edited byJ. Cloudsley‐Thompson. Oxford etc: Pergamon Press, 1984, 348 pp. (£14.95).

THE LEGAL REGIME OF THE PROTECTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AGAINST POLLUTION FROM LAND‐BASED SOURCES, by S. Kuwabara. Tycooly International Publishing Ltd., Dublin, Ireland, 1984, xix + 227 pp. (Hardback £19.50, U.S. $35.00).

THE CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEANS, by Heinrich D. Holland. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1984, xii + 582 pp.

A COMPARATIVE ATLAS OF ZOOPLANKTON: BIOLOGICAL PATTERNS IN THE OCEANS, by S. Van der Spoel and R. P. Heyman. Berlin, Springer‐Verlag, 1983, 186pp. + 50 figures + 143 maps. (¢46.90).

MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON AND PRODUCTIVITY, edited by O. Holm‐Hansen, L. Bolis and R. Gilles. Springer‐Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo, 1984, 175 pp. (U.S. $14.20).

MODELLING THE FATE AND EFFECT OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN THE ENVIRONMENT, edited by S. T. Jørgensen (Developments in Environmental Modelling 68) Elsevier, Amsterdam, Oxford, New York, Tokyo, 1984, 342 pp.

EUTROPHICATION AND LAND USE, by W. M. Lewis, Jr, J. F. Saunders, III, D. W. Crumpacker, Sr, and C. Brendecke, 1984, Lake Dillon, Colorado. (Ecological Studies 46) Springer‐Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, Tokyo, 1984, 202 pp. (U.S. $46.30).

OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING OF AIR POLLUTION, edited by P. Camagni and S. Sandroni. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1984. ($100).

DETERMINATION AND ASSESSMENT OF PESTICIDE EXPOSURE, edited by M. Siewerski (Studies in Environmental Science No. 24). Amsterdam and New York: Elsevier, 1984, viii + 222 pp. ($75.00).

METALS IN THE HYDROCYCLE, by W. Salomons and U. Förstner. Springer Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1984, x + 349 pp. (hardback $36.60).

ECOLOGY OF BARNEGAT BAY, NEW JERSEY, by M. J. Kennish and R. A. Lutz. Lecture notes on Coastal and Estuarine Stuidies No. 6. Springer Verlag. New York, 1984 xiv + 396 pp. ($37.70).

THE HANDBOOK OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY VOLUME 1 PART C, edited by O. Hutzinger. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1984. ($46.30).

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PROTECTION: INORGANIC ANALYSIS, edited by Wilhelm Fresenius and Ingo Lüderwald, Springer‐Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo, 1984. ($15.30).

THE NATURE OF THE ENVIRONMENT: AN ADVANCED PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, by A. Goudie. Basil Blackwell Publisher, Oxford, 1984, xi + 331 pp. (£7.50, paperback; £22.50, hardback).

SPATIAL ORIENTATION: THE SPATIAL CONTROL OF BEHAVIOR IN ANIMALS AND MAN, by H. Schöme (translated by C. Strausfeld, 1984). (Vol. 1 in Princeton Series in Neurobiology and Behaviour). Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, 1980, xviii + 348 pp. (£11.50, paperback; £54.70, cloth).

RECOLLECTIONS OF A REVOLUTION: GEOGRAPHY AS SPATIAL SCIENCE, edited by M. Billinge, D. Gregory and R. Martin. MacMillan, London, 1984. (£6.95, paperback; £18.00, hardback).

EFFLUENT TRANSPORT AND DIFFUSION MODELS FOR THE COASTAL ZONE, by D. C. L. Lam, C. R. Murthy and R. B. Simpson, Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies Vol. 5. Springer Verlag: New York, 1984, ix + 168 pp. ($17.90, softback).

PROGRESS IN UTILITY AND RISK THEORY, edited by Ole Hagen and Fred Wenstop, D. Reidel, Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland, 1984. xii + 279 pp. ($46.00).

EEC ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND BRITAIN: AN ESSAY AND A HANDBOOK, by Nigel Haigh. Environmental Data Services Ltd., London, 1984. 324pp. and TEN YEARS OF COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT POLICY, Commission of the European Communities, European Commission, Brussels, March 1984, 85 pp. plus annexes unnumbered.