Book reviews

TELECONNECTIONS LINKING WORLDWIDE CLIMATE ANOMALIES, edited by M. H. Glantz, R. W. Katz and N. Nicholls, CUP, Cambridge, 1991, 535 pp., index (£40) THE CHANGING ATMOSPHERE: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE, by John Firor, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1990, 145 pp., incl. index (£12.95) THE FOOD QUESTION: Profits Versus People?, edited by Henry Bernstein, Ben Crow, Maureen Mackintosh and Charlotte Martin, Earthscan, London, 1990 (£7.95) THE GREEN READER, edited by Andrew Dobson, Andre Deutsch, London, 1991 (£12.99) ACID POLITICS: Environmental and Energy Policies in Britain and Germany, by S. Boehmer-Christiansen and J. Skea, Belhaven Press, London, 1991, xiii + 296 pp., index (£39.50) OZONE DIPLOMACY, Richard Elliot Benedick, published by World Wildlife Fund and Conservation Foundation and Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Harvard UP, 1991, 300 pp. (Hbk: £22.25; Pbk: £8.75) SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD, by D. Pearce, E. Barbier, and A. Markandya, Earthscan, London, 1990, 228 pp. (£9.95) THE POOR DIE YOUNG: HOUSING AND HEALTH IN THIRD WORLD CITIES, edited by Jorge E. Hardoy, Sandy Cairncross and David Satterthwaite, Earthscan Publications, London, 1990, 309 pp. (£9.59) DEFENDING THE FUTURE, A GUIDE TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, by Johan Holmberg, Stephen Bass and Lloyd Timberlake, Earthscan Publications, London, 1991, 40 pp. (£3.95) DICTIONARY OF ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: PEOPLE, PLACES, IDEAS AND ORGANIZATION, by Andy Crump, Earthscan Publications, London, 1991, 272 pp. (£15.00) DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND MONITORING OF SANITARY LANDFILL, by Amalendu Bagchi, Wiley, Chichester, UK, 1989, x + 284 pp., index (£39.00) HOW SAFE IS SAFE? RADIATION CONTROVERSIES EXPLAINED, by B. Lambert, Unwin Paperbacks, London, 1990, 284 pp. (£7.99) IPCS ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA 97 DELTAMETHRIN, The World Health Organisation, Geneva, 1990, 133 pp. ($14.40) THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME ON CHEMICAL SAFETY (IPCS) HEALTH CRITERIA 107 AND 115, WHO, 1990 (Barium, $13.60; Glycol Ethers $12.00) HEALTH AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, by Ross Hume Hall, Polity Press, Oxford, 1990, 214 pp. (inc. notes and index) (£28.00) FOUR NEOTROPIC FORESTS, edited by Alwyn H. Gentry, Yale University Press, London, 1991, xiii + 627 pp., scientific index, subject index (£42.50) THE LAST WHALES, by Lloyd Abbey, Doubleday, London, 1990 (£7.99) ORGANIC ACIDS IN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, edited by E. M. Perdue and E. T. Gjessing, J. Wiley & Sons,