Natural Terrain – a Constraint to Development? Proceedings of the 14 November 2002 conference organised by the Hong Kong Branch of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 237 pages, HK$ 300, published by IMM, Hong Kong 2002

These proceedings contain 18 separate articles, including keynote submissions (Earl Brabb et al. ; Oldrich Hungr) and an invited paper (Gareth Hearn). It should be noted that the title of the book is somewhat misleading, as this is primarily a collection of papers on landslides, albeit within the context of natural terrain hazards, and mainly concentrates on landslides in Hong Kong. However, the book is a delight to read, as the quality of the material (if not all the illustrations) is extremely high and the editors should be …