Strategy of pollution control

Strategy of pollution control

314 BOOKREVIEWS Strategy of Pollution Control. By P. M. Berthouex and D. F. Rudd. John Wiley, New York, London, Santa Barbara, Sydney, Toronto. 1977...

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Strategy of Pollution Control. By P. M. Berthouex and D. F. Rudd. John Wiley, New York, London, Santa Barbara, Sydney, Toronto. 1977. Price: £14.20, $24.00. This is a textbook for students starting a course of environmental engineering. The authors state that they present a new approach integrating principles applicable to all areas of pollution control. Many practical examples from different fields are discussed to illustrate those principles.

Biological Monitoring of Inland Fisheries. Edited by J. S. Alabaster. Applied Science Publishers Ltd, London. 1977. Pp. xvi + 226. Price: £15.00. This volume includes twenty-two papers given at a symposium of the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission in Helsinki, Finland in June 1976. The authors showed how biological monitoring, if rigorous standards were applied to its use, could be valuable in establishing water quality criteria. A book of major interest to all concerned with freshwater fisheries and ecology.

Fate of Pollutants in the Air and Water Environments. Part 1. Mechanism of Interaction Between Environments and Mathematical Modeling and the Physical Fate of pollutants. Edited by 1. H. Suffet. John Wiley, New York, London, Sydney and Toronto. 1977. Pp. xx + 483. Price: £18.70, $31.70. These papers were presented at a symposium of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia in April 1975. Thirty-eight papers are divided into five sections on mechanisms of interaction between environments, methods of modelling, the chemical and biological fate of pollutants in the air, the biological fate in water and, finally, the chemical fate in water.

Assessment of Major Industrial Application: A Manual. Research Report 13 of the Department of the Environment, London; England. By B. D. Clark, K. Chapman, R. Bisset and P. Wathern. Department of the Environment, London. 1976. Pp. xiv + 170. Price: £2-00. This is the report of a committee, commissioned by the Scottish Development Department, the Department of the Environment (England) and the Welsh Office to assess the impact of major industrial developments on the environment. It presents a