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THE FUTURE OF THE ENVIRONMENT. THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGICAL ALTERNATIVES, edited by D. C. Pitt, Routledge, London, 1988, 218 pp. Index (£25.00) WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD: ALLIANCE FOR THE FUTURE, edited by I. Dankelman and J. Davidson. Earthscan Publications Limited in association with IUCN, London, 1988. 210 pp. (paperback £3.95) EFFECT OF CONSERVATION TILLAGE ON GROUND WATER QUALITY—NITRATES AND PESTICIDES, edited by T. J. Logan, J. M. Davidson, J. L. Baker and M. R. Overcash. Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, Michigan, USA (£32.85) PERSPECTIVES ON WATER. USES AND ABUSES, edited by D. H. Speidel, L. C. Ruedisile and A. F. Agnew, OUP, Oxford 1988, 388pp. (£17.50pb; £35.00 hdbk) POLLUTION RESEARCH AND THE RESEARCH COUNCILS, Eleventh Report, issued jointly by the: Agricultural and Social Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Natural Environmental Research Council Science and Engineering Research Council, published by the Natural Environmental Research Council for the Inter‐Research Council Committee on Pollution Research, UK, 1986 (paperback) THE DANGERS OF LOW LEVEL RADIATION, by C. Sutcliffe, Avebury, Aldershot, UK, 1987, 277 pp. (£22.50, hardback) LEAD POLLUTION FROM MOTOR VEHICLES 1970 TO 1986, A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, compiled by P. Farmer, Elsevier, Applied Science Publishers, London, UK, 95 pp. (£25, hardback). GEOCHEMICAL AND HYDROLOGIC PROCESSES AND THEIR PROTECTION: ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON HUMAN HEALTH; PRESERVING ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT MONITORING, ASSESSMENT, AND MANAGEMENT, edited by S. Draggan, J. J. Cohrsson and R. E. Morrison (4 vols, each with the same subtitle, The Agenda for Long‐term Research and Development). Praeger, New York, 1987, approx. 120–220 pages each (£37.25). SAVING AMERICA'S WILDLIFE, edited by T. R. Dunlap, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1988, 222 pp. (n.p.g.) ARIZONA AT SEVENTY‐FIVE, THE NEXT TWENTY‐FIVE YEARS, edited by B. Luey and N. J. Stowe (University of Arizona Press, Tucson) 1987, 221 pp. ($25) IN THE WAKE OF THE HURRICANE, edited by B. Ogley, Froglets Publications, Westerham, England, 1988. (£11.95 hb; £7.50 pb) THE HOLE IN THE SKY. MAN'S THREAT TO THE OZONE LAYER, edited by J. Gribbin, Corgi Books, London, 1988, 160 pp. (£3.95) HOW GREEN IS YOUR CITY? PIONEERING APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION, edited J. Davidson, Bedford Square Press, London (National Council for Voluntary Organisations), 1988, 110 pp. (£4.95) THE MYCOLOGIST, edited by D. N. Pegler (published by the British Mycological Society) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, in four parts per annum about 50 pp. in each issue (annual subscription £6.00, US $12.00; each part £1.50, US $3.00)