Book reviews

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INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL DIPLOMACY, edited by John E. Carroll. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, 290 pp., index (£22.95)

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE, edited by James P. Lester. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1989, 401 pp., index (£25.00)

MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: INCORPORATING COMPETING VALUES IN NATURAL RESOURCE ADMINISTRATION, by Daniel H. Henning and William R. Mangun, Duke University Press, Durham (USA), 1989 (paperback $18.95; hardback $48.50)

ECONOMICS, NATURAL RESOURCES SCARCITY AND DEVELOPMENT: CONVENTIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE VIEWS, by Edward Barbier, Earthscan Publications, London, 1989, 217 pp., index (£15)

SOCIAL SCIENCE IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, edited by Marc L. Miller, Richard P. Gale and Perry J. Brown, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1987, 259 pp., index (£18.95)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS. GREENHOUSE EFFECT, ACID RAIN, POLLUTION, edited by T. Nejat Vizirzoğlu, Hemisphere Publishing, London and New York, 1990, 525 pp., index (£61.00)

THE HUMAN IMPACT ON THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, by Andrew Goudie, Basil Blackwell, Oxford (third edition), 1990 (£10.95)†

IN THE US INTEREST: RESOURCES, GROWTH AND SECURITY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD, edited by Janet Welsh Brown. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1990, 215 pp., bibliography (£11.95)

WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE/UNEP/UNDEP, World Resources 1990–91, Oxford U.P., New York and Oxford, 1990, 383 pp., Index (£12.50)

DRYLAND MANAGEMENT: ECONOMIC CASE STUDIES, edited by J. A. Dixon, D. E. James and P. B. Sherman, Earthscan Publications, London, 1990, 364 pp., index (£16.95)

WATER AND WASTEWATER FINANCE AND PRICING, by George A. Raffelis, Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, Michigan, 1989, 172 pp., index (£35.00)

LAND USE PLANNING: TECHNIQUES AND POLICIES, Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Soil Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America/American Society of Agronomy, 1984 ($13.20)

HOUSING POLICY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, edited by Gil Shidlo, Routledge, London, 1990, viii + 178 pp., index (£30)

SPOTLIGHTS ON THE CITIES. Improving urban health in developing countries, I. Tabibzadeh, A. Rossi‐Espagnet and R. Maxwell, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1989, 174 pp. (£24) (Sw. Fr. 30).

ENVIRONMENTAL ERGONOMICS: SUSTAINING HUMAN PERFORMANCE IN HARSH ENVIRONMENTS, edited by I. B. Mekjavic, E. W. Banister and J. B. Morrison, Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia and London, 1988, 405 pp., index (£39.00)

FILM BADGE DOSIMETRY IN ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEAR TESTS, Committee on Film Badge Dosimentry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests, Energy Engineering Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington DC, 1989, 225 pp. (£18.95).

OUR COMMON SEAS: COASTS IN CRISIS, by D. Heinrichsen: Earthscan Publications in association with UNEP, London, 1990, 184 pp., index (£8.95)

NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING AND SOCIETY, edited by Martin J. Pasqualetti, Routledge, London, 1990, xviii + 237 pages including 9‐page index (£45.00)

MANAGING INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE, by Gary F. Lindgren, Lewis Publishers, USA, 1989, xiii + 389 pages, including 5 page index (£48.55).

HEALTH AND SAFETY IN SMALL INDUSTRY, edited by University of Medicine & Dentistry, New Jersey, USA, Lewis Publishers, USA, 1989, xix + 204, including 5‐page index (£32.70).

FORENSIC MEDICINE — A HANDBOOK FOR PROFESSIONALS, by Alan A. Watson, Gower Publishing Company Limited, Aldershot, 1989, 331 pp. incl (hb £14.95).

GARNER'S ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, 7th edition, B. L. Jones, Butterworths, London, 1989, 506 pp. incl. index (£23.95)

THE LAWYER'S REMEMBRANCER 1990. Revised & edited for the year 1990 by Julian Roskams, London Butterworths, 1990, 477 pp., plus Diary for 1990 (hb £13.50)

BUTTERWORTHS LANDLORD AND TENANT HANDBOOK, 3rd Edition, 1989, edited by Butterworths editorial staff, Butterworths, London, 881 pp + 18 pp. index (£24.95)

BUTTERWORTHS PROPERTY LAW HANDBOOK, 2nd Edition, 1989, edited by E. H. Scammel, Butterworths, London, 1989, 889 pp + 22 pp. index (£19.95)

NEW HORIZONS IN ECOTOXICOLOGY. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY, Vol 4, No 3. Oxford, British Ecological Society/Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford 1990, 188 pp., no index (£11.00)

ESTUARINE ECOLOGY, by J. W. Day, Jr., C. A. S. Hall, W. M. Kemp, & A. YAÑEZ‐ARANCIBIA, Wiley Interscience, New York, 1989, xiv + 558 pp. (£43.15).

LATE QUATERNARY PALAEOENVIRONMENTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, by J. Deacon and N. Lancaster, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988, 225 pp. (£30.00)