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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1972). 1972 1st edition. Large 8vo (155 x 235mm). Ppxx,463. Tables and graphs, bibliography. Grey-brown cloth, gilt titles to upper board and spine. Ex civil-service library. Usual stamps but clean working copy in slightly frayed and faded dust-wrapper. "Proceedings of an international symposium on river ecology and the impact of man, held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 20-23, 1971." The papers are divided into the following sections: What is a river? - definitions, geomorphology, chemistry, plant ecology; Uses of a river, past and present - the Columbia, Delaware and Illinois rivers, the Nile and the Danube; Effects of river uses - regulated discharge, morphometric changes, sedimentation, thermal effects, pesticides, industrial waste, radionuclides, nutrients; Rationalization of multiple use[s]. .