Organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment

Organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment

Environmental Pollution 44 (1987) 241-242 Book Reviews Fluoride Research 1985. Edited by H. Tsunoda & Ming-Ho Yu. Elsevier Science Publishers. 1986...

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Environmental Pollution 44 (1987) 241-242

Book Reviews

Fluoride Research 1985. Edited by H. Tsunoda & Ming-Ho Yu. Elsevier Science Publishers. 1986. Pp. 452. ISBN 0-444-42678-7. Price: US$ 103.75 Dfl. 280-00. Forty-nine selected papers from a symposium, held in June 1985 in Morioka, Japan, discuss analytical methods for fluoride, environmental pollution, and effects on plants, animals and human beings. Several papers discuss new analytical methods.

Chemistry of Multiphase Atmospheric Systems. Edited by W. Jaeschke. Springer Verlag. 1986. Pp. 773. ISBN 3-540-15647-X. Price: DM 240. This book contains the 27 papers given at Institute, held in 'Corfu in September/October fundamental and up-to-date review of what is physics and chemistry of the reactions that atmospheric gases, liquids and particles.

a N A T O Advanced Study 1983. The aim was to give a and is not known about the occur within and between

Organic Micropoilutants in the Aquatic Environment. Edited by A. Bjorseth & G. Angeletti. D. Reidel Publishing Co. 1986. Pp. 512. ISBN 90-277-2242-0. Price: £67"75. The EEC sponsored this symposium, on organic micropollutants (which are not defined), held in Vienna in October 1985; all authors come from Europe. The first third of the book discusses analytical methods and 241 Environ. Pollut. (44) (1987)--~) Elsevier Applied Science Publishers Ltd, England, 1987.

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problems, with subsequent sections on transport, transformation and the effects of water treatment processes. The final, heterogeneous, section covers mathematical modelling, the prediction of transport and biological activity, the ECDIN data bank, and future EEC environmental research. CONCAWE Reports: 2/86 Volatile Organic Compound Emissions: an Inventory for Western Europe. 20 pp. 4/86 Residue Hydrodesuiphurization Investment and Operating Costs. 32 pp. 5/86 Sulphur Emissions from Combustions of Residual Fuel Oil Based on Energy Demand and Supply 1980-2000. 34 pp. The titles of these reports are self-explanatory. All were prepared by the oil companies' European organisation for environmental and health !protection (CONCAWE). All are brief, lucid and to the point.

F. Moriarty