Now in its second edition, Pollution of Lakes and Rivers provides essential insights into present-day water quality problems from an international perspective. * Explains simply and effectively how lake sediments can be used to reconstruct pollution history * Includes over 200 additional references and a new chapter on recent climatic change and its effects on water quality and quantity * Tackles present-day water quality problems from an international perspective * Previously published by Hodder Arnold PowerPoint slides of the artwork from the book are available from: http://biology.queensu.ca/~pearl/textbook.htm Reviews: "This is a useful text. It provides a good level of detail so that the beginner in this area can appreciate what palaeolimnology can (and cannot) achieve. It goes beyond the simple introduction to provide a detailed understanding of how techniques can be applied ...This is a different take on the usual pollution text and would be of great use to those wishing to understand more from sedimentary records." Taken from the British Ecological Society's Teaching Ecology website