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Soils and the Environment – An Introduction, by A. Wild. Published by Cambridge University Press, The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP Groundwater Microbiology and Geochemistry, by F. H. Chapelle. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1UD Focus on European Environmental Law, by Ludwig Kramer. Published by Sweet and Maxwell Ltd, South Quay Plaza, 183 Marsh Wall, London E14 9FT Land of Singing Waters – Rivers and Great Floods of Northumbria, by D. Archer. Published by The Spredden Press, Brocksbushes Farm, Stocksfield, Northumbria NE45 7UB Reservoir Flood Estimation: Another Look, by Duncan W. Reed and Elizabeth K. Field. IH Report 114. Published by The Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford OX10 8BB Functions of Nature – Evaluation of Nature in Environmental Planning, Management and Decision Making, by R. S. de Groot. Published by Wolters Noordhoff bv, PO Box 58, 9700 MB, Groningen, The Netherlands Contaminated Land: Problems and Solutions. Edited by T. Cairney. Published by Blackie Academic and Professional, an imprint of Chapman and Hall, Wester Cleddens Road, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow G64 2NZ Urban Waterside Regeneration – Problems and Prospects. Edited by K. N. White, E. G. Bellinger, A. J. Saul, M. Symes and K. Hendry. Published by Ellis Horwood Ltd, Market Cross House, Cooper Street, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1EB Environmental Health Criteria, No. 134: Cadmium and Environmental Health Criteria, No. 135: Cadmium – Environmental Aspects . Published by the World Health Organisation, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland Erosion and Sediment Transport Monitoring Programmes in River Basins. Edited by J. Bogen, D. E. Walling and T. Day, IAHS Publication No. 10. IAHS Press, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon Waste, Recycling & Environmental Directory 1993. Published by Thomas Telford Publications, 1 Heron Quay, London E14 4JD Atlas of the Environment (Second Edition). Edited by G. Lean and D. Hinrichsen. Published by Helicon Publishing Ltd, 42 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2EP The Economics of Coastal Management – A Manual of Benefit Assessment Techniques. Edited by E. C. Penning-Rowsell, C. H. Green, P. M. Thompson, A. M. Coker, S. M. Tunstall, C. Richards and D. J. Parker. Published by Belhaven Press, 25 Floral Street, London WC2E 9DS The Last Oasis – Facing Water Scarcity, by Sandra Postel. Published by Earthscan Publications Limited, 120 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JN     

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Chemical Safety Matters, by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the International Programme on Chemical Safety. Published by Cambridge University Press, The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP
Remediation Manual for Petroleum Contaminated Sites, by David L. Russell. Published by Technomic Publishing AG, Missionstrasse 44, CH-4055 Basel, Switzerland
Land, Water and Development. River Basin Systems and their Sustainable Management, by Malcolm Newson. Published by Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Overland Flow-Hydraulics and Erosion Mechanics. Edited by A. J. Parsons and A. D. Abrahams. Published by UCL Press Ltd, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Urban Waste Waters – Treatment for Use in Steam and Power Generation, by K. Abdullaev, I. Malakhov, L. Poletaev and A. Sobol. Published by Ellis Horwood Ltd, Market Cross House, Cooper Street, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1EB
Water Quality Assessments – A Guide to the Use of Biota, Sediments and Water in Environmental Monitoring. Edited by D. Chapman. Published by Chapman & Hall Ltd, 2–6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN
National Vocational Qualifications in Water Treatment. Written and produced by Severn Trent Water Ltd. Special Projects Unit, Finham Sewage Treatment Works, St Martins Road, Coventry CV3 6PR     

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Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Law and Practice, by John R. Salter. Published by Butterworth Law Publishers Ltd, 88 Kingsway, London WC2B 6AB
An Engineer's Guide to Water Treatment by George S. Solt and Chris B. Shirley. Published by Ashgate Publishing Group, Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot, Hants GU11 3HR
Practical Conservation: Water and Wetlands, by Pamela Furniss and Andrew Lane. Published by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, Mill Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent
Environment Industry Yearbook, published by Environment Press, Abacus House, Manor Road, West Ealing, London W13 0AS
Water Treatment Handbook, by Degrémont. (6th English Edition). 183 Avenue du 18 juin 1940–9 2508 Ruiel – Mal Maison, Cedex, France; UK distribution Intercept Limited, PO Box 716, Andover, Hampshire SP10 1YG     

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Multiphase Flow and Transport Processes in the Sub-Surface – a Contribution to the Modelling of Hydro-Systems, by Rainer Helmig.
Released Substances and Their Dispersion in the Environment: Guidance for Applicants for Process Authorisation under Integrated Pollution Control, by Environmental Analysis Cooperative
Groundwater – Our Hidden Asset, by R. A. Downing (on behalf of the UK Groundwater Forum). Published by the British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG.
Scientific, Environmental and Political Issues in the Circum-Caspian Region. Edited by M. H. Glantz and I. S. Zonn.
Sensor Systems for Environmental Monitoring. Edited by M. Campbell. Published in two volumes by Blackie Academic & Professional, an imprint of Chapman & Hall, 2–6 Boundary
The Water Crisis: Constructing Solutions to Freshwater Pollution, by Julie Stauffer. Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd, 120 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JN. 1998.     

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Disinfection Alternatives for Safe Drinking Water, by E. A. Bryant, G. P. Fultan, and G. C. Budd. Published by van Nostrand Reinhold, 115 Fifth Avenue, New York 10003, USA
Groundwater Treatment Technology (2nd Edition), E. K. Nyer. Published by van Nostrand Reinhold, 115 Fifth Avenue, New York 10003, USA
Water and Wastewater Engineering Hydraulics, by T. J. Casey. Published by Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP
Control of Eutrophication in Inland Waters, by H. Klapper. Published by Ellis Horwood Ltd., Market Cross House, Cooper Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1EB
Dynamics of Gravel-bed Rivers. Edited by P. Billi, R.D. Hey, C.R. Thorne & P. Tacconi. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1UD
Biology of Wastewater Treatment, by N. F. Gray. Published by Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP
Water Quality Assessments - A Guide to the use of Biota, Sediments and Water in Enviromental Monitoring. Edited by Deborah Chapman. Published by Chapman and Hall. 2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN
Water and Gas Mains Corrosion, Degradation and Protection, edited by Clauda Basalo. Published by Ellis Horwood Ltd, Market Cross House, Cooper Street, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1EB
The Valley of the Stour from Weston Green to Harwich, by N.G. Rogers. Published by Ian Henry Publications Ltd., 20 Park Drive, Romford, Essex, RM1 4LH
A Green History of the World, by Clive Ponting. Published by Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ     

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Hydraulic Ram Pumps – a Guide to Ram Pum pump Water Supply Systems, by T. D. Jeffery, T. H. Thomas, A. V. Smith, P. B. Glover, and P. D. Fountain. Published by Intermediate Technology Publications, 103–105 Southampton Row, London, WC1B 4HH
The Entec Directory of Environmental Technology (European Edition). Published by Earthscan Publications Limited, 120 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JN
Hydraulic Structures, by P. Novak, A. I B. Moffat, C. Nalluri and R. Narayanan. Published by Unwin Hyman Ltd and distributed by Chapman & Hall, North Way, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 5BE
Hydraulics in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2nd edn.) by A. Chadwick and J. Morfett. Published by E. & F. N. Spon, an imprint of Chapman & Hall, 2–6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN     

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, Selected and edited by Charles Kerr. Published by Intermediate Technology Publications. 1989.

Britain's Poisoned Water

, by Frances and Phil Craig. Published by Penguin Books. 1989.

Running Water

, by Charles Hall. Published by Robertson McCarta. 1989.

Air Pollution, Acid Rain and the Environment

, edited by Kenneth Mellanby. Published on behalf of the Watt Committee on Energy by Elsevier Applied Science Publishers Ltd, Crown House, Linton Road, Barking, Essex IG11 8JU. 1988.     

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Development Toxicology: Risk Assessment and the Future. Edited by R. D. Hood.
Ecological Effects of Thermal Discharges, by Terry Langford. Published by Elsevier Applied Science Publishers Ltd.
Integrated Design of Water Treatment Facilities, by S. Kawamura. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Technologies for Small Water and Wastewater Systems, by Edward J. Martin and Edward T. Martin. Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold
Potentiometric Water Analysis, by Derek Midgley and Kenneth Torrance. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Working with the Community. A Guide to Corporate Social Responsibility, by D. Clutterbuck and D. Snow.
Fluid Transients in Pipeline Systems, by Prof. A. R. D. Thorley, Published by D & L George Ltd.
Environmentally-Sound Water Management. Edited by N. C. Thanh and A. S. Biswas. Published by S. K. Mookerjee     

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The Water Sellers
, by Geoffrey D. Wood and Richard Palmer-Jones. Published by Intermediate Technology Publications
Land, Water and People. Geographical Essays in Australian Resource Management. Edited by R. L. Heathcote and J. A. Mabbutt.
Plynlimon Research: The First Two Decades. Institute of Hydrology Report No. 109. Edited by C. Kirby, M. D. Newson and K. Gilman.
The Treatment and Handling of Wastes. Edited by A. D. Bradshaw, Sir Richard Southwood and Sir Frederick Warner.
Bioaccumulation in Aquatic Systems. Edited by R. Nagel and R. Loskill. Published by VCH
Legionella and Building Services, by G. W. Brundrett. Published by Butterworth-Heinemann, Linacre House
French Enterprise and the Challenge of the British Water Industry, by Mairi Maclean. Published by Avebury Academic Publishing Group
Analytical Information for the Water Industry, by T. R. Crompton. Published by Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd     

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by Peter H. Chaplin. Published by Whittet Books Limited, 18 Anley Road, London, W14 OBY.

Balancing the Needs of Water Use,

by James W. Moore. In the Springer Series on Environmental Management. Series Editor, Robert S. DeSanto. Published by Springer-Verlag GmbH, Heidelberger Platz 3, D-1000, Berlin 3, 1989.     

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Sewers: Rehabilitation and New Construction, Repair and Renovation. Edited by G. Read and I. Vickridge.
Handbook of Water Treatment Chemicals. Compiled by Michael and Irene Ash.
Simple Guide on Management and Control of Water. The Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 4WF.     

Reviews

DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN ETHIOPIA Editor: Abdul Mejid Hussein. African Environment Special Report No. 2, The International African Institute, London, 1976,121 pp. £1.50.

HEDGING (A Practical conservation handbook) Alan Brooks, The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, The Zoological Gardens, Regents Park, London, 1975. 117 pp. £2.10 inc. postage.

THREE JOURNALS Habitat: Published by : The Council for Nature, The Zoological Gardens, Regents Park, NW1 4RY. At £2.50, or £5.00 per annum.

Recreation News: Published by: The Countryside Commission , John Dower House, Crescent Place, Cheltenham, Glos., GL50 3RA.

The International Journal of Environmental Studies: Published by : Gordon Breach Science Publishers Ltd., 42 William IV Street. London, W.C.2. £17.50 for individuals, £35.00 for Libraries. Habitat

A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE J.J. Bagley, Phillimore & Co. Ltd., London & Chichester 1976. 128 pp. £4.95.     

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Changing River Channels. Edited by A. Gurnell and G. Petts.
The Science of Composting, Part 1 and Part 2. Edited by M. de Bertoldi, P. Sequi, B. Lemmes and T. Papi.
Hydrology and Scarcity of Water Resources in the Arab Region, by Mamdouh Shahin.
Eco-facts and Eco-fiction: Understanding the Environmental Debate, by William H. Baarschers.
Introducing Groundwater (second edition), by Michael Price.
Nutrient Removal from Wastewaters. Eds Nigel J. Horan, Paul Lowe and Ed. I. Stentiford.
MSI Data Report: Sewage Disposal: UK. Published by Marketing Strategies for Industry (UK) Ltd
Environmental Chemistry, by Alan Winfield. Published by Cambridge University Press     

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THE LAKE DISTRICT SPECIAL PLANNING BOARD, 1974-1986: SOME FINANCIAL ASPECTS by Ian O. Brodie, Department of Geography, University of Lancaster, Occasional Paper, January 1987, 90 pages.

ANCIENT PLACES: THE PREHISTORIC AND CELTIC SITES OF BRITAIN. Glyn Daniel and Paul Bahn; photography by Anthony Gascoigne. Constable & Co. Ltd., London. 1987. 180 pp. £14.95.

REFLECTIONS ON LANDSCAPE; THE LIVES AND WORK OF SIX BRITISH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Edited by Sheila Harvey for the Landscape Institute, Published by Gower Technical Press, 1987, pp. 168, £25.00

CITIES OF THE MIND: IMAGES AND THEMES OF THE CITY IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, Lloyd Rodwin and Robert M. Hollister (Eds.), Plenum Press, 1984, 356 pp, $35.00.

FOUNTAINS AND POOLS: CONSTRUCTION AND GUIDE-LINES AND SPECIFICATIONS, C. Douglas Aurand, E. & F. N. Spon, 1987, £28.50.

A LITERARY PILGRIM. AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BRITAIN'S LITERARY HERITAGE, by Edward Thomas. Edited with an Introduction by Michael Justin Davis, with photographs by Simon McBride, Webb & Bower, 1985, pp. 224, £12.95.

TURNER IN THE SOUTH, ROME, NAPLES, FLORENCE by Cecilia Powell, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1987, pp. 216, 40 colour plates, 180 black and white plates, £25.00

THE VISUAL ELEMENTS OF LANDSCAPE by John A. Jakle, University of Massachusetts Press, 1987, 200 pp, £33.25 (HB), £14.25 (PB), distributed by Eurospan, 8 Henrietta Street, London.

LANDSCAPE PLANNING, by Tom Turner, Hutchinson Educational, 1987, 212 pp, £27.50.

THE CITY AS A WORK OF ART. LONDON, PARIS, VIENNA, Donald J. Olsen, Yale University Press, New Haven and • London, 1986, 341 pp, £19.95.

BEECHWORTH: AN AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TOWN AND ITS PAST, Tom Griffiths, Greenhouse Publications (385 Bridge Road, Richmond, Victoria, Australia), 1987, 128 pp, 87 illus., A$19.95.

GENTRIFICATION OF THE CITY, Neil Smith & Peter Williams (Eds.), Allen and Unwin, Boston, 1986 xiii + 257 pp.

LANDSCAPE & CULTURE: GEOGRAPHICAL & ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES, J. M. Wagstaff (Ed.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987, 233 pp, £29.50 (H/B), £9.95 (P/B).

LANDSCAPE AND IDEOLOGY: THE ENGLISH RUSTIC TRADITION, 1740-1860, Ann Bermingham, Thames and Hudson, 1987, 254 pp, 8 illusts, 8 colour plates, ISBN 0-500-23481-7, £25.

AQUATECTURE: ARCHITECTURE AND WATER, Anthony Wylson, Architectural Press, 1986, 216 pp., £39.50.     

A Comparison of a Statistical and Computational Fluid Dynamics Approach to Estimate Heat Release Rate in Road Tunnel Fires

Computational tools such as one-dimensional models or Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) have been used for the fire safety design of road tunnels. However, most of these analyses are performed using a specified fire source where the heat release rate (HRR) in the tunnel is fixed by the user and the influences of ventilation conditions and tunnel geometry are not considered. For a more realistic estimate, models need to incorporate these factors in their input. This paper discusses the use of a statistical approach previously developed by other researchers (Carvel and Beard, The handbook of tunnel fire safety. Thomas Telford Publishing, pp 184–197, 2005) and the use of a CFD approach to estimate the HRR in a road tunnel fire. As an application example, fire scenarios in which a light goods vehicle carrying wooden pallets are used to compare the estimation of the HRR using these two methods.     

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Affordable Water Supply and Sanitation. Proceedings of the 20th WEDC Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 22–26 August 1994. Edited by J. Pickford, P. Barker, A. Coad, T. Dijkstra, B. Elson, M. Ince and R. Shaw.
Contaminated Land , by Stephen Tromans and Robert Turrall-Clarke.
E.C. Treaty and Environmental Law , by L. Kramer.
Mixing and Transport in the Environment. (Eds. Keith Bevan, Philip Chatwin and John Millbank.)
Stream Ecology, Structure and Function of Running Waters , by J. David Allan.
Operation and Maintenance of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Systems: A Guide For Managers. Written for, and published by, the World Health Organisation.
Integrated Solid Waste Management: A Lifecycle Inventory , by Peter White, Dr-Ing Marina Franke and Peter Hindle.
Report 142: Control of Pollution from Highway Drainage Discharges. By Martin Luker and Keith Montague with contributions from 11 other individuals.
Tables for the Hydraulic Design of Pipes, Sewers and Channels. H. R. Wallingford and D. I. H. Barr.
The Ecological Basis for River Management. (Edited by D. Harper and A. Ferguson.)
Waste Incineration and the Environment. Issues in Environmental Science and Technology 2. (Eds. R. E. Hester and R. M. Harrison.)     

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Acidification of Freshwaters , by M. Cresser and A. Edwards. Published by Cambridge University Press.
Sediment Transport in Gravel-bed Rivers , edited by G. R. Thorne, J. C. Bathurst, and R. D. Hey. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Environmental Biotechnology , edited by C. F. Forster and D. A. John Wase. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Pollution Threat of Heavy Metals in Aquatic Environments , by G. Mance. Published by Elsevier, Applied Science Publishers Ltd.
Coastline - Britain's Threatened Heritage, by Greenpeace. Published by Kingfisher Books Ltd.     

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Book Reviewed in this article:
Sustainable Sewerage–Guidelines for Community Schemes, by R. A. Reed.
'Chloroform' IPCS (International Programme on Chemical Safety) Environmental Health Criteria 163.
Groundwater Pollution–Liabilities and Engineering Implications. Edited by R. H. Jones, C. D. F. Rogers and J. M. W. Holden.
Detection Methods for Cyanobacterial Toxins. Edited by G.A. Codd, T.M. Jefferies, C.W. Keevil, and E. Potter.
Water Supply, by A.C. Twort, F.M. Law, F.W. Crowley and D.D. Ratnayaka.
Environmental Organic Chemistry: Illustrative Examples, Problems and Case Studies, Edited by R.P. Schwarzenbach, P.M. Gshwend and D.M. Imboden.
Environmental Law, by R. Burnett-Hall. Published by Sweet & Maxwell Ltd.
Environmental Management; Issues and Solutions, edited by M. Atchia and S. Tropp.
Hydraulic Gates and Valves in Free Surface Flow and Submerged Outlets, by Jack Lewin.
Watershed: the Role of Fresh Water in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, by S.C. Lonergan and D.B. Brooks.     

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Hydrogeology of Northern Ireland, by N. S. Robins. Published by HMSO
Geochemical Processes, Weathering and Groundwater Recharge in Catchments. Edited by Ola Saether and Patrice de Caritat
Toxic Impacts of Wastes on the Aquatic Environment, by J. F. Tapps
Environmental Impact of Chemicals: Assessment and Control. Edited by M. D. Quint, D. Taylor and R. Purchase
Integrated Environment, Health and Safety Management, by A. Gillies
Landfilling of Waste: Biogas. Edited by T. H. Christensen, R. Cossu and R. Stegmann
Stormwater Management. M. P. Wanielisk and A. Y. Yousef
Environmental Technology in the Oil Industry, by S. T. Orszulik
Theory and Practice of Water and Wastewater Treatment, by R. L. Droste     

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World Water '86: Water Technology for the Developing World . Proceedings of an ICE International Conference held in London in July 1986.
Catastrophic Flooding . Edited by L. Mayer and D. Nash.
Handbook of Hydraulic Engineering , by A. Lencastre.
Weather Radar and Flood Forecasting . Edited by V. K. Collinge and C. Kirby.