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PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780748662289

RRP: £33.00

PAGES: 237

PUBLICATION DATE:
February 1, 1999

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Fragile Land: The State of the Scottish Environment

Auslan Cramb

A mini-encyclopaedia of environmental facts and figures with case studies from leading scientists and academics, describing the environment as it exists today, and offering solutions to pressing problems from air pollution to the loss of plants and animals.

Reviews of Fragile Land: The State of the Scottish Environment

Reviews scheduled for TLS, THES, Independent, Scotland on Sunday and Observer – Reviews due in Countyside, The Ecologist, Environment Today – TV tie-in with Scottish news programmes.

Auslan Cramb

AUSLAN CRAMB is the Scotland correspondent for the Telegraph newspaper and was previously Environmental Correspondent for the Scotsman. He is author of Who Owns Scotland Now? (1996)

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