[en] An updated second edition of 'Pollution: Causes, Effects and Control' has been published in eighteen chapters. Topics covered include various aspects of water and air pollution, health effects of environmental chemicals, the legal control of pollution, the control of industrial pollution, organometallic compounds in the environment, radioactivity in the environment and quantitative systems methods in evaluation of environmental pollution problems. The chapter on various aspects of radioactivity in the environment was selected and indexed separately. (U.K.)