The treatment and Handling of Wastes provides an account of the environmental problems posed by the different types of waste material, the current state of technology for dealing with them, and what science and technology promises for the future. The book opens by providing a background to the general ecological, economic and legislative principles that apply to waste management and disposal. The second part of the book takes a view of what may be possible in future waste disposal programmes. The contributors are all leading scientists or industrialists who have to achieve safe economic and...

Written by a world-respected scientist on the subject of the book, this is an advanced text for students of ecology, population biology and evolution, as well as professional ecologists, conservationists and naturalists. Knowledge of the invasive species and the problems they cause, a subject that has grown substantially in recent years, is succinctly summarized in this topical book. It draws on much of the SCOPE programme on the ecology of biological invasions, in which the author has been intimately involved for some years. It also draws on the author's many years of experience teaching in...

This volume represents the proceedings of the second in a series of discussion meetings convened by The Royal Society with the aim of reviewing the ways in which human needs and national expectations can be served by technological developments in the 21st century.