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Social Risk Assessment: How Safe is Safe? Edited by Richard C. Schwing and Walter A. Albers. Plenum, New York and London. 1980. Pp. 363. Price: US$39.50.

These sixteen papers were given at a symposium held at the General Motors Research Laboratories in October 1979. They deal in a readable way with the whole problem of risk assessment. Some of the general discussion is included.

How to Obtain Abundant Clean Energy. By Linda Baine McGown and John O'M. Bockris. Plenum, New York, 1980. Pp. 262. Price: US$14.95.

The advantages of hydrogen over other fuels are set out persuasively.

Literatur zu Umweltschutz und Umweltforschung. 2. Erweiterte Auflage. Compiled and presented by Universit/itsbibliotek Erlangen-Nurnberg. 1979. Pp. 399. Price not given.

This contains 2556 references from the international literature. The latest are for 1979, the year the volume was produced. There are some gaps in the British and American literature, but German and French work, which is sometimes missed in English-speaking countries, seems to be fully covered.

The Character and Origins of Smog Aerosols. A Digest of Results from the California Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACHEX). Edited by George M. Hidy, Peter K. Mueller, Daniel Grosjean, Bruce R. Appel and Jerome J. Wesolowski. Wiley-Interscience, New York. 1980. Pp. 776. Price: £17.75.

321 Environ. Pollut . Set'. B. (2)- -~ ~ Applied Science Publishers Ltd, England, 1981 Printed in Great Britain