It is nice to know that not only road haulage
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is to be al, blamed for any deterioration in the environment .0.0411 though in their book wZi Campaigning jar he Envirenmem. Richard if2-"1"' Kimber and J. J. Richar son outline the growth o. tekii public opposition to heti% y lorries.
Both the authors are from the Department of Politics Vrj at the University of keele and support for their chapter on heavy lorries comes from their colleague S. K. Brookes.
Tracing the origins of the emotive campaign against road transport by the environmentalist lobby to a series of articles in the Sunday Times in 1969, the authors remark on the difficulty which the industry has had in mounting favourable publicity. Though the heat seems to have gone out of the situation --perhaps the realization that alternative forms of transport are too vulnerable to stoppage from industrial action — this book could provide a guideline to the industry as to the line to take in refuting many of the allegations against it should the problem flare up again.
The hook is published by Routledge and Kcgan Paul, Broadway House, Carter Lane, London EC4V 5EL, at £4.95.
J.J.