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Book reviewed in this article: A ray of hope : RETHINKING TECHNICAL COOPERATION: Reforms for Capacity Building in Africa by Elliot J. Berg A lack of optimism : GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Perspectives on Sustainability Edited by Joel Darmstadter Conserving water : WATER SUPPLY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Developing World Applications by Mohan Munasinghe Learning to hedge : COMMODITY RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE Edited by Theophilos Priovolos and Ronald C. Duncan Alive and well? : THE MEXICAN PETROLEUM INDUSTRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Edited by Jonathan C. Brown and Alan Knight     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Irrigation water management : SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES IN THIRD WORLD IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT edited by R. K. Sampath and Robert A. Young
Oil shale resources OIL SHALES OF THE WORLD-THEIR ORIGIN, OCCURRENCE AND EXPLOITATION by Paul L. Russel
Water pollution in Asia : WATER POLLUTION CONTROL IN ASIA. PROCEEDINGS OF SECOND IAWPRC ASIAN CONFERENCE HELD IN BANGKOK, THAILAND, 9–11 NOVEMBER 1988 edited by T. Panswad, C. Polprasert, K. Yamamoto
Women and development : WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT: A PROGRESS REPORT ON THE WORLD BANK INITIATIVE
A future for the Earth : SUSTAINING THE EARTH by John Young
The environment: yesterday, today and tomorrow : THE HUMAN IMPACT ON THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Andrew Goudie     

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Saving the Coast: California's Experiment in Intergovernmental Land Use Control

Melvin B. Mogoluf

D. D. Heath and Co., Lexington, Mass. 1975, xiii + 136 pp., ISBN 0–669–97394–7

The Planning and Design of Rural Roads: The Implications of Landscape & Recreation

David N. Skinner

Scottish Tourist Board/Countryside Commission for Scotland. Price: £4.00

Comparative Land Use Planning and Regulation

Urban Planning Development Series No. 12, University of Washington, Seattle, 1975, 120pp.

’Modern Political Geography‘

R. Muir

Macmillan, 1975, 262pp., Paper cover £2.95; Hard cover £6.95.

Discussion Paper No. 10: “The Layfield Report and Local Government Finance"

G. C. Cameron (ed)

Discussion Papers in Planning, University of Glasgow

Assessment of Major Industrial Applications

Department of the Environment (1976) Research Report 13, H.M.S.O., £2

The Economic Impact of Tourism: a case study in Greater Tayside

D. M. Henderson (1975)

University of Edinburgh: Tourism and Recreation Research Unit

’Urban modelling: algorithms, calibrations, and predictions‘

M. Batty

Cambridge University Press, London, 1976, 381 pages, £17.50

’Urban fields‘

S. Angel and G. M. Hyman

Academic Press, London, 178pp., 1976, £5

Rural Planning Problems

Gordon E. Cherry (Ed.)

Leonard Hill, London, 1976, £6.95

’Living in Cities‘

Charles Mercer

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 240pp.

Shopping Centres—Planning, Development and Administration

Edgar Lion

Wiley: 1977, 198pp., £9.00.

The Home of Man

Barbara Ward

Penguin Books (Paperback) and Andre Deutsch (Hardback), June 1976, 294 pp., Indexed, 18 photographs, Paperback £1, Hardback £3.75

Runcorn New Town. Master Plan Amendment No. 2

Runcorn Development Corporation, 1975

Available from The Development Corporation, Runcorn New Town, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 5AR, 26 pp., Maps and Plans, Illustrated     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Legal reference and source book ENERGY AND RESOURCES LAW '92: Proceedings of the International Bar Association's Section on Energy and Natural Resources Law's 10th Advanced Seminar on Petroleum, Minerals, Energy and Resources Law held in Washington DC: Graham and Trotman Diverse and international RENEWABLE ENERGY: Technology and the Environment, Proceedings of the 2nd World Renewable Energy Congress, Reading, UK, 13-18 September 1992: A.A.M. Sayigh A stimulating read WATER RESOURCES IN THE ARID REALM: Clive Agnew and Ewan Anderson Whatever happened to PV? SOLAR PUMPING: An Introduction and Update on the Technology, Performance, Costs and Economics: Roy Barlow, Bernard McNelis and Anthony Derrick Renewable energy for rural development MICRO-HYDRO DESIGN MANUAL: A Guide to Small-Scale Water Power Schemes: Adam Harvey et al Incentives for good behaviour ECONOMIC POLICY TOWARDS THE ENVIRONMENT: Dieter Helm     

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Green Culture: environmental rhetoric in contemporary America. C. G. Herndl & S. C. Brown (Eds), 1996, Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 315 pp. ISBN 0 229 14990 0, £35.95 (hbk) ISBN 0 299 14994 3, £17.50 (pbk)

Earthtalk: communication empowerment for environmental action. S. A. Muir & T. L. Veenendall, 1996, Westport, CT, Praeger, Praeger Series in Political Communication, 233 pp. ISBN 0 275 953700 X, £47.95

Environmentalism and Cultural Theory. Kay Milton, 1996 London & New York, Routledge, 266 pp. ISBN 0 415 115529 9, £45.00 (hbk) ISBN 0 415 11530 2, £13.99 (pbk)

Local Environmental Struggles: citizen activism in the treadmill of production. Kenneth A. Gould, Allan Schnaiberg & Adam S. Weinberg, 1996, Cambridge University Press, 239 pp. ISBN 0 521 55519 1, £40.00 (hbk) ISBN 0 521 55521 3, £14.95 (pbk)

The Language of Environment: a new rhetoric. George Myerson & Yvonne Rydin, 1996 London, UCL Press, 264 pp. ISBN 1 85728 330 9, £35.00 (hbk) ISBN 1 85728 331 7, £11.95 (pbk)

Environmental Issues and Business: implications of a changing agenda. Sally Eden, 1996, Chichester, Wiley, ISBN 0 471 94872 1, £25.00

Green Shift: towards a green sensibility in architecture. John Farmer, edited by Kenneth Richardson, 1996, Oxford, Butterworth Architecture, with World-Wide Fund for Nature, ISBN 07506 15303

Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: the politics of planning. Mark Luccarelli, 1995, New York, Guilford Press, ISBN 1572300019, £19.95

The Ecology of Hope: communities collaborate for sustainability. Ted Bernard & Jora Young, 1997, East Haven, CT, New Society Publishers, 233 pp. ISBN 0 86571 355 33 (pbk)

Turning the Tide: integrated local area management for Australia's coastal zone. Valerie A. Brown, 1995, Canberra, Australia, Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories

Involving Communities in Forestry through Community Participation. Forestry Practice Guide 10, Forestry Commission

The Scope for Community Participation in Forest Management. A Report for the Forestry Commission and Scottish Office by Bill Slee, Gill Clark & Patrick Snowdon, £10 (£15 non UK)

The Role of Woodlands in Meeting Planning Objectives in Great Britain. A Report for the Forestry Commission by Professor Paul Selman