Book reviews

SIMPLE GUIDE ON MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF WASTES, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 1996, pp. xii + 61 (£9.95). ECOLOGICALLY BASED PEST MANAGEMENT: NEW SOLUTIONS FOR A NEW CENTURY, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 1996, pp. xiii + 146 ($37.95) WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENTS, A Guide to the Use of Biota, Sediments and Water in Environmental Monitoring, Second Edition, edited by Deborah Chapman, E & FN SPON London on behalf of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 1996, pp. xxi + 626 (Pbk £22.95) POLLUTION, CAUSES, EFFECTS AND CONTROL, THIRD EDITION, edited by Roy M. Harrison, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 1996, pp. xxi + 480 (pbk £35). CROP PROTECTION AGENTS FROM NATURE: NATURAL PRODUCTS AND ANALOGUES, CRITICAL REPORTS ON APPLIED CHEMISTRY, VOLUME 35, edited by Leonard G. Copping, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, on behalf of The Society of Chemical Industry, London, 1996, pp. xxvii + 501 (hbk £129.50). LOSING HOPE: THE ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH IN RUSSIA, by Olga Bridges and Jim Bridges, Avebury Studies in Green Research, Aldershot, England, 1996, pp. xv + 266 (hbk £39.95). ECOTOXICOLOGY: ECOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS, ECOTOXICOLOGY SERIES 4, edited by D. J. Baird, L. Maltby, P. W. Greig-Smith and P. E. T. Douben, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Champan & Hall, London, 1996, pp. xi + 88, (pbk £17.99). OUR CHILDREN'S TOXIC LEGACY, HOW SCIENCE AND LAW FAIL TO PROTECT US FROM PESTICIDES, by John Wargo, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, pp. xvi + 380, 1996 (hbk £22.50). THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF LOW-GRADE FUELS, edited by .Mary MacDonald, Michael Chadwick and Gareg Aslanian, Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, 1996, pp. xxiv + 271 (hbk £30). ENGINEERING TO SURVIVE: GLOBAL SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, Proceedings of the Commonwealth Engineers' Council 50th Anniversary Inaugural Conference held in London on 18-21 March 1996, Thomas Telford, London, 1996, pp. 151 (pbk). HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, edited by Alan Boyle and Michael Anderson, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996, 313 pages, ISBN 0-19-826255-8. THE LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY: COMMUNITY RESPONSES TO INDUSTRIAL DISASTER, edited by James K. Mitchell, United Nations University Press, 1996, 307 pages, ISBN 92-808-0926-1 (pbk $30). THE PRACTICE