Book reviews

CLIMATE, HISTORY AND THE MODERN WORLD, by H. H. Lamb, Methuen, London, 1982, 387 pp. (Paperback £8.95)

CARBON DIOXIDE AND CLIMATE: A SECOND ASSESSMENT. U.S. National Academy Press, Washington, 1982. (£6.50)

CLIMATOLOGY ‐ SELECTED APPLICATIONS, by John E. Oliver, Edward Arnold, London, 1981, 260 pp. (£14.95)

TRACE ELEMENTS IN HEALTH. A review of Current Issues, edited by J. Rose, Butterworths, Sevenoaks, U.K., 1983. (£30.00)

ACOUSTICS AND NOISE CONTROL, by B. J. Smith, R. J. Peters and S. Owen, Longman, London, 1982, 236 pp. (£9.95)

NOISE IN THE ENVIRONMENT ‐ WITH MINUTES OF EVIDENCE. House of Lords Report by the Select Committee on the European Communities, Paper 175, HMSO, London. (£6.05)

CONTROL OF SULPHUR OXIDES FROM COAL COMBUSTION, by Geoffrey F. Morrison. Report No. ICTIS/TR21, IEA Coal Research, London, November 1982, 104 pp. (£10.00 for member countries of TIS; £20.00 for non‐members)

RECOMMENDED HEALTH‐BASED LIMITS IN OCCUPATION EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES. (Report of a WHO Study Group). Technical Report Series No. 677, World Health Organisation, Geneva, 1982, 110 pp.

MANUAL ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FOR MOSQUITO CONTROL. (With Emphasis on Malaria Vectors). WHO offset Publication No. 66, World Health Organisation, Geneva, 1982. (Sw. Fr. 22.00)

BERMUDA'S DELICATE BALANCE. PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT, edited by Stuart J. Hayward, Vicki Holt Gomez and Wolfgang Sterrer. The Bermuda National Trust, P.O. Box 61, Hamilton, Bermuda, 1982. (Second printing). 402 pp. ($11.00)

ENVIRONMENT AND PLANT ECOLOGY (2nd edition), by J. R. Etherington, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, U.K., xxii + 487 pp., 1982. (Paperback £12.00; hardback £25.00)

IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON SOCIETY, Volume 32, no. 2, 1982. The microbe: friend and foe, UNESCO, Paris, 1982.

WHAT'S WILDLIFE WORTH? by R. and C. Prescott‐Allen, IIED London, for Earthscan, London, 1982, 90 pp. (£3.00)

DUST BOWL. THE SOUTHERN PLAINS IN THE 1930's, by D. Worster, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983, 277 pp. (First published in hard cover 1979). (£6.25)

MAN‐ENVIRONMENT PROCESSES, by D. Drew, Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead, U.K., 1982, 135 pp. (£4.95)

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW, vol. 2, No. 4, December 1981, Special Issue on Ethics and Values in EIA, Plenum, New York ($78.00 per volume)

MANAGING THE OCEAN RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES, by D. P. Finn, Springer‐Verlag, Berlin, 1982, 192 pp. ($15.90)

WATER RESOURCES AND LAND USE PLANNING ‐ A SYSTEMS APPROACH, by P. Laconte and Y. Y. Haimes, Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague, 1982, 470 pp. ($57.50)

ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ANALYSIS, by M. M. Hufschmidt and E. L. Hyman, Tycooly International, Dublin, 1982, 333 pp. (Paperback $28.50; hardback $40.00)

DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA, by S. R. Aitken, C. H. Leigh, T. R. Leinbach and R. R. Moss, McGraw Hill, Singapore, 1982, 310 pp.

INDUSTRIAL WASTE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH MID‐ATLANTIC CONFERENCE, edited by James E. Alleman and Joseph T. Kavanagh, But‐terworth, Sevenoaks, U.K., xix + 612 pp. (£35.00)

WASTE MANAGEMENT: PLANNING, EVALUATION, TECHNOLOGIES, by David C. Wilson, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981, 530 pp. (Hardback £45.00)

HILLSLOPE MATERIALS AND PROCESSES, by M. J. Selby, Oxford University Press, 1982, 264 pp. (Hardback £19.50; paperback £9.95)

BIOCHEMICAL AND PHOTOSYNTHETIC ASPECTS OF ENERGY PRODUCTION, edited by Anthony San Pietro, Academic Press, New York, 1980, 231 pp. (£13.80)

PERSPECTIVE ON ENERGY: ISSUES, IDEAS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DILEMMAS, 3rd edition, edited by Lon C. Ruedisili and Morris W. Firebaugh, Oxford University Press, 1983, 605 pp. (Paperback £9.95)

1983 ELECTRICITY GENERATION AND THE ECOLOGY OF NATURAL WATERS, by T. E. Langford, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1983, 342 pp. (£14.50)

INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL REMOTE SENSING, by E. C. Barrett and L. F. Curtis, Chapman and Hall, London, 1982. (£12.95)

EVOLUTION AND VARIATION OF MULTIGENE FAMILIES, by Tomoko Ohta. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, Number 37. Springer‐Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1980, 131 pp. ($11.50)

ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, by Lewis F. Cohn and Gary R. McVoy, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1982, 374 pp. (£45.55)