Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The State of the Environment Authors : Essam El-Hinnawi and Manzur H. Hashmi
Options for Developing Countries in Mining Development Authors : Grantley W. Walrond and Raj Kumar
Ground Water Quality Protection Authors : Larry W. Canter, Robert C. Knox and Deborah M. Fairchild
India and Thailand: Social and Economic Effects of Petroleum Development Authors : Tata Energy Research Institute, with C. R. Jagannathan and Charit Tingsabadh
China and Malaysia: Social and Economic Effects of Petroleum Development Authors : Peter Hills and Paddy Bowie     

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Book reviewed in this article:
World Energy Outlook: Looking at Energy Subsidies. Getting Prices Right International Energy Agency
Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development A. Desta
Determining the Value of Non-Marketed Goods: Economic, Psychological, and Policy Relevant Aspects of Contingent Valuation Methods R.J. Kopp, W.W. Pommerehne, N. Schwarz
Controlling Air Pollution in China T. Feng     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Energy and Development in Kenya: Opportunities and Constraints Editors : Phil O'Keefe, Paul Raskin and Steve Bernow.
The Use of Non-conventional Water Resources in Developing Countries ( Natural Resources/Water Series No. 14 )
Economics of Mineral Exploration in Australia: Guidelines for Corporate Planning and Government Policy, Authors : Brian W. Mackenzie and Michel L. Bilodeau.     

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State of the world : STATE OF THE WORLD 1992 by Lester Brown, Project Director W. W. Norton & Company, New York
A cookbook for developing countries: IMPROVING CHARCOALING EFFICIENCY IN THE TRADITIONAL RURAL SECTOR: Charles Feinstein and Robert van der Plas World Bank, Industry and Energy Department
KEROSENE STOVES: THEIR PERFORMANCE, USE, AND CONSTRAINTS by Villem Floor and Robert van der Plas World Bank, Industry and Energy Department
ASSESSMENT OF BIOMASS ENERGY RESOURCES: A DISCUSSION ON ITS NEED AND METHODOLOGY by Paul Ryan and Keith Openshaw World Bank, Industry and Energy Department
Development economics : HANDBOOK OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, VOL II Edited by Hollis Chenery and T.N. Srinavasan North Holland, New York
Environmental remote sensing : REMOTE SENSING FOR HAZARD MONITORING AND DISASTER ASSESSMENT: MARINE AND COASTAL APPLICATIONS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION edited by E.C. Barrett, R. Brown and A. Micallef Gordon and Breach, Science Publisher, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA     

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Book Reviewed in this article:
Leachate from Hazardous Wastes Sites, P. N. Cheremisinoff and K. A. Gigliello.
Water Quality: Characteristics, Modeling, Modification, G. Tchobanoglous and E. D. Schroeder.
Contaminant Removal from Public Water Systems, Daniel C. Houck, et al
Electroplating Wastewater Pollution Control Technology: Pollution Technology Review 115, George C. Cushnie, Jr.
Groundwater Management: The Use of Numerical Models, Paul van der Heijde, et al.
Interest Group Interaction and Groundwater Policy Formation in the Southwest, Zachery A. Smith.
Special Water Districts: Challenge for the Future, James N. Corbridge, Jr. (Editor)
Optimum Use of Water Resources, N. A. de Ridder and A. Erez.
Principles of Soil Conservation and Water Management, H. R. Arakeri and R. Donahue.
Facets of Hydrology II, John C. Rodda (Editor)
Water Quality and Its Control, James C. Lamb.
Groundwater Treatment Technology, Evan K. Nyer.
Ground Water in Hard Rocks, I. Larsson (Chairman) et al.
Treatise on Environmental Law, F. P. Grad.
Open-Channel Hydraulics, Richard H. French.
Cypress Swamps, K. C. Ewel and H. T. Odum     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Peter R. Odell and Kenneth E. Rosing, The Future of Oil, A Simulation Study of the Inter-Relationship of Resources, Reserves and Use, 1980–2080
Rahmer, B. A., Fuels for the Future: A Survey of World Energy Alternatives
Prast, William G., Securing U.S. Energy Supplies     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Water Supply and Health, H. van Lelyveld and B. C. J. Zoet-man (Editors).
Water Research Topics, Volume I, Isabel M. Lamont (Editor).
Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, Third Edition, Glenn O. Schwab, Richard K. Frevert, Talcott W. Edminster, and Kenneth K. Barnes.
Design Calculations in Wastewater Treatment, F. Wilson. E. & F. N. Spon
Stormwater Hydrology and Drainage, D.
Surface Water Impoundments, Volumes 1 and 11, H. C. Stefan (Editor).
The United States Energy Atlas, David J. Cuff and William J. Young.
Acid Rain Information Book, Frank A. Record, David V. Bu-benick, and Robert J. Kindya.
Transmission Line Design Manual, Holland H. Parr
Energy From Biological Processes: Technical and Environmental Analyses, Office of Technology Assessment.
The Performance of Austrian Pine Seed Sources on Various Sites in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, Roy N. Keys, Franklin C. Cech, and Walter H. Davidson.     

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Book review in this Article
Random Functions in Hydrology, R. L. Bras and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe.
State of the Environment: An Assessment at Mid-Decade.
Siting Hazardous Waste Management Facilities, The Conservation Foundation. The Conservation Foundation, Chemical Manufacturers Assoc, and the National Audubon Society.
Principles of Water Quality, Thomas D. Waite.
Geomorphology, R. J. Chorley, S. A. Schumm, and D. E. Sug-den.
Surface Water Treatment for Communities in Developing Countries, C. R. Schulz and D. A. Okun.
Analysis of Water Distribution Systems, Thomas M. Walski.
California Riparian Systems, R. E. Warner and K. M. Hendrix (Editors).
TVA: Fifty Years of Grass-Roots Bureaucracy, E. C. Hargrove and P. K. Conkin (Editors).
Fluvial Hydrology, S. Lawrence Dingman. W. H. Freeman
Going Sour: Science and Politics of Acid Rain, Roy Gould.
Introduction to Environmental Engineering, M. L. DAvis and D. A. Cornwell.
An Introduction to the World's Oceans, A. C. Duxbury and A. Duxbury.
The Climatic Scene, M. J. Tooley and G. M. Sheail (Editors).
Impounded Rivers: Perspectives for Ecological Management, Geoffrey E. Petts.
Groundwater-Leachate: Modeling/Monitoring/Sampling, P. N. Cheremisinoff, K. A. Gigliello, and T. K. O'Neill.     

Rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest lands

Summary The area of tropical forest lands in high rainfall areas that is already degraded is great and growing rapidly. Rehabilitation of such lands is important so their biological productivity can support people and reduce pressures for degradation of additional tropical forest lands. While further knowledge and experience is needed, there is a sufficient basis for trial programs. The economic and social well-being is far better served by focusing on rehabilitation of degraded lands than by additional incursions into dwindling stocks of natural forest.This position paper emanated from a Workshop of the IUCN Commission on Ecology at the Forest Research Institute, Kepong, Selangor, Malaysia, 29–31 August 1983, supported by the United 0ations Environment Programme (UNEP). Its publication was made possible by the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues (ICIHI) in the context of its work on deforestation.The following persons participated: Dr. Th. E. Lovejoy, Convenor, (USA), P. Ashton (USA), G. Baines (Solomon Islands), M. Bijleveld (Switzerland), J. M. Boyd (U.K.), E. F. Brunig (F.R.G.), Chin S. C. (Malaysia), J. Davidson (Australia), S. Davis (U.K.), F. Duhme (F.R.G.), Gong W. K. (Malyasia), M. Hadley (France), L. S. Hamilton (USA), E. Hegerl (Australia), M. Jenkins (U.K.), K. Kartawinata (Indonesia), K. M. Kochumen (Malaysia), Kuang B. C. (China), N. Kwapena (Papua New Guinea), N. Manokaran (Malaysia), Salleh M. N. (Malaysia), N. Sander (F.R.G.), A. Sasekumar (Indonesia), H. Skeat (Australia), W. Smits (Netherlands), Tho Y. P. (Malaysia), Wang M. H. (China), L. Webb (Australia), Wong K. M. (Malaysia), Yap S. K. (Malaysia), Zhu J. F. (China).     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Desertification: Exploring the Myth By D S G Thomas and N J Middleton John Wiley and Sons, New York
Green and Gold: Sustaining Mineral Wealth: Australians and their Environment Peter Hancock Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra
Geomorphology and Sedimentology of Lakes and Reservoirs J McManus and R W Duck(ed) John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England
Environmental Appraisal in Government Departments Department of the Environment, UK Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), London
Management of Water Use in Agriculture K K Tanji and B Yaron (eds) Sp ger-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Transitions to Alternative Energy Systems: Entrepreneurs, New Technologies, and Social Change . Editors : Thomas Baumgartner and Tom R. Burns.
Economy of the Pacific deals with issues which are rapidly evolving, the book raises more questions than it answers, and that is its value for the future. The Emerging Marine Economy of the Pacific Editor : Dr. Chennet Gopalakrishnan.     

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Frances Sharples is a terrestrial ecologist in the Environmental Science Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, operated by Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., under Contract No. DE-AC05-840R21400 with the US Department of Energy. Publication No. 3413, Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL.     

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Frances Sharples is a terrestrial ecologist in the Environmental Sciences Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, operated by Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., under Contract No. DE-AC05-840R21400 with the US Department of Energy. Publication No. 3413, Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL.     

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Book review in this Article
Appropriate Methods of Treating Water and Wastewater in Developing Countries, George W. Reid.
Setprge and Gnnmdaater, Miguela A. Marino and James N. Luthin.
Hydrologic Modeling of SmaU Watersheds, C. T. Haan, H. P. Johnson, and D. L. Brakensiek
Remote Sensing for Resource Management, Chris J. Johannsen and James L. Sanders (Editors).
Proceedings of the Specialty Conference on Environmentally Sound Water and soil Management, E. Gordon Kxuse, Chuck R Burdick, and Yousef A. Yousef (Editors).
Handbook of Irrigation Technology, Volume I, Edited by Herman J. Finkel.
Water for Western Agculture. K. D. Frederick and J. C. Hanson.
Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries, Edited by E J. Schiller and R L. hoste.
Handbook of Chemical Property Estimation Methods (Environmental Behavior of Organic Compounds), Warren J. Lyman, William F. Reehl, and David H. Rosenblatt.
The Clean Water Act: The Second Decade, Morris A. Ward, E. Bruce Harrison Co.
Economic Benefits of hnproved Water Quality: Public Perceptions of Option and Preservation Values, D. A. Greenley, R. G. Walsh, and R A. Young.
Surface Water, Robert Bowen.
Nitrogen, Public Health. and the Environment: Some Tools for Critical Thought, John H. Timothy Winneberger.     

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Books reviewed:
Dana L. Jackson and Laura L. Jackson, The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems
Douglas W. Allen and Dean Lueck, The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk and Organisation in Agriculture
John Cavanaugh and Jerry Mander, Alternatives to Economic Globaliza-tion: A Better World is Possible
Nives Dolšak and Elinor Ostrom (eds), The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptations
Howard Geller, Energy Revolution: Policies for a Sustainable Future
Bruce E. Johansen, The Dirty Dozen. Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future
Gary K. Meffe, Larry A. Nielsen, Richard L. Knight, and Dennis A. Schenborn (eds), Ecosystem Management: Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Money to Burn? The High Costs of Energy Subsidies: Mark Kosmo Planning for Drought: Toward a Reduction of Societal Vulnerability: Donald A. Wilhite and William E. Easterling, with Deborah A. Wood State of the World 1988: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society: Lester R. Brown, William U. Chandler, Christopher Flavin, Jodi Jacobson, Sandra Postel, Cynthia Pollock Shea and Edward C. Wolf Non-Conventional Water Resources Use in Developing Countries; Proceedings of the Interregional Seminar, Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, 22–28 April 1985     

The case for nuclear electric power

Summary What role should the United States play in the energy economy of the world? Do we want to be uninvolved? Do we sit back and let the other industrial countries supply the rest of the world with nuclear power? Already, the world with four billion people and too high a growth rate is headed for trouble that could engulf us all. Four of five decades from now, when the population will have doubled to eight billion, the low sophistication level of today's energy users will very likely have run the total energy use very high. We in the United States will not only have our own energy problems; there will be an imperative need for a world energy policy, and we should be part of the negotiation. The United States will have to be more than self-sufficient. Power from uranium and thorium will expectably be our backbone. both at home and abroad. Among other things, Americans cannot afford to have profligate worldwide use of fossil fuel, with the expected movement of good crop weather northward, away from the best food-producing areas. American agriculture might be hit the hardest. Problems like these are world problems, and they just won't go away. We are part of them. Is it not to our own interest to have our own energy situation under control, so we can help shape the global outcome? This article is reprinted (excerpted) with the permission of Education Development Center, Inc., from “The Case for Nuclear Electric Power”, Occasional Paper No. 1 by Saville R. Davis and Jerrold R. Zacharias of the Energy in Perspective Project, funded by the Business Roundtable, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, For Biographic sketches of the Authors please see pages 305–306.     

Narrow-waveband reflectance ratios for remote estimation of nitrogen status in cotton

Tailoring nitrogen (N) fertilizer applications to cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) in response to leaf N status may optimize N use efficiency and reduce off-site effects of excessive fertilizer use. This study compared leaf and canopy reflectance within the 350 to 950 nm range in order to identify reflectance ratios sensitive to leaf chlorophyll (Chl), and hence N status, in cotton. Plants were grown outdoors in large pots using half-strength Hoagland's (control) solution until some three-row plots received a restricted supply of N. Treatments comprised control, 20% of control N at first flower bud (square) onward; 0 and 20% of control N at first flower onward; and 0% of control N at fruit-filling onward. Despite leaf N values ranging from 51 to 19 g kg-1 across treatments and sampling dates, a weak correlation was obtained between Chl and N (r2 = 0.32, df = 70). In general, N stress led to increased reflectance at 695 +/- 2.5 nm (R695) and decreased reflectance at R410, and changes in leaf N were best correlated with either R695 or R755 in leaves and either R410 or R700 in canopies. The strongest associations between leaf constituent and canopy reflectance ratio were Chl vs. R415/R695 (r2 = 0.72), carotenoids vs. R415/R685 (r2 = 0.79), and N vs. R415/R710 (r2 = 0.70). The R415 measure appears to be a more stable spectral feature under N stress, as compared with more pronounced changes along the reflectance red edge (690-730 nm). Multiple regression identified a three-waveband canopy reflectance model that explained 80% of the variability in leaf N. Results indicate that remote sensing of N status in cotton is feasible using narrow-waveband reflectance ratios that involve the violet or blue region of the spectrum (400 to 450 nm) and the more commonly featured red-edge region.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Sauvant, Karl P. (ed.), The Third World Without Superpowers - the Collected Documents of the Group of 77
Sauvant, Karl P., The Group of 77: Evolution, Structure, Organization , Oceana, New York
Petroleum Economist and Petroconsultants, Far East Oil and Energy Survey , Geneva and Dublin
Jaenicke, Günther, Erich Schanze and Wolfgang Hauser, A Joint Venture Agreement for Seabed Mining , Kluwer, Deventer, The Netherlands
Richard B. Bilder, Managing the Risks of International Agreement , University of Wisconsin Press
Brown, Lester R., Building a Sustainable Society , W. W. Norton and Co., New York and London     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Adjustment for Africa : A FUTURE FOR AFRICA: BEYOND THE POLITICS OF ADJUSTMENT By Bade Onimode
Energy systems and development : DIAGNOSIS OF ENERGY SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES by J. Girod
Minerals and the environment : MINING THE EARTH by John E. Young
Towards a sustainable future : BEYOND THE LIMITS: GLOBAL COLLAPSE OR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers
A guidebook for metal mining : ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF SELECTED NON-FERROUS METALS (Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, Au) ORE MINING
The cost of CO₂ emissions limits : BUYING GREENHOUSE INSURANCE: THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF CO₂ EMISSION LIMITS by A. S. Manne and R. G. Richels
Sustainable development : ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by the United Nations Center for Science and Technology