Modelling Surface Water Acidification in the UK: Application of the MAGIC model to the Acid Waters Monitoring Network

The results of a detailed study in the mid-1990s involving the application of the MAGIC model (Model of Acidification of Groundwater in Catchments) to the 21 sites of the UK Acid Waters Monitoring Network and providing an assessment of the 1994 Oslo protocol to limit sulphur emissions across Europe. The MAGIC model allows long-term trends in soil and surface water acidification to be reconstructed and predicted at the catchment level. The report also provided an assessment of the combined effects of acidic deposition and land-use change

Consuming cultures : power and resistance

Book synopsis: Dream, desire, buy, consume, throw away! We consume to live, yet we all consume to do much more than just live. Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this book stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption. Arranged in two parts - `Homes and Households, Places and Spaces', and `Technologies of Consumption and Waste' - the book includes chapters on youth consumption, cultures of the household, photography, pornography, music, information technology, and waste and rubbish. This book will be of interest to all concerned with the study of culture and consumption, whether from sociological, cultural, political or psychological perspectives