Environmental History of Britain since the Industrial Revolution, An

Part 1 Pollution and amenity: the age of smoke and smells - measurement of pollution, the domestic fire, industrial smoke, acid dust and smells, remedies for atmospheric pollution from smoke abatement to global warming - deadly fog, the smokeless zone, the Clean Air Act, competition for coal, invisible pollutants, global warming, new sources of energy, effects of air pollution on health water resources under strain - the water polluters, remedies for water pollution, state of the rivers, treatment of sewage, the last 60 years land loss and reclamation - costal erosion, land reclamation, erosion inland, forestry, loss of agricultural land to other uses towards a green and pleasant land - a feeling for the past conservation of buildings and monuments, access to the countryside, noise pollution. Part 2 The prodigal economy - and its reform?: energy - coal reserves, substitutes for coal, energy prices, economy in the winning and use of coal, the demand for energy metals and minerals - reserves of metal ores in Britain, substitution, metal prices any old iron? - recyling, manufacture of shoddy, waste heat recovery, glass and metals, hazardous waste, high-tech scrap collection, scrap and total supply of metals by-products - by-products of coal, the alkali manufacture, soap-making, fertilisers, building materials, the decline of by-products? Conclusion - the quality of goods, economies of time and labour, economic growth and exhaustible resources.