Perspectives on Ecosystem Management for the Great Lakes: A ReaderSUNY Press, 1. jan. 1988 - 365 strani In 1978 Canada and the United States concluded an agreement for the protection and enhancement of water quality in the Great Lakes based on the ecosystem approach to management. Since ratification of this agreement, little progress has been made in practical application of this concept to basin-wide management for the Great Lakes. At the same time public concern for the quality of the Great Lakes and their future has risen dramatically. As a result, the need has arisen for a practical, authoritative explanation of the ecosystem concept. This volume, written by highly qualified authorities, addresses these important ecological, political, and economic issues in a systematic and informative manner. In this study, the ecosystem concept and its objectives are defined. The institutional structure that has evolved for governance of the Great Lakes, the need for a more effective governance structure, and prospects for rehabilitation of the Great Lakes Waters are crucial issues considered. The management question is the single most important policy question with respect to the Great Lakes and this is the only study available that brings together all pertinent information and provides steps for new and constructive management of the Great Lakes. |
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The Great Lakes as a Water Resource | 26 |
A Strategy for the Management | 31 |
19551985 | 59 |
Institutional Arrangements for Great Lakes Management | 114 |
A Governance Structure Designed to Learn Would Better | 139 |
Remediation and Rehabilitation of the Great Lakes | 168 |
The 123 of Great Lakes Monitoring | 190 |
The Royal | 298 |
Appendices | 345 |
and Premiers 1985 | 359 |
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Perspectives on Ecosystem Management for the Great Lakes: A Reader Lynton K. Caldwell Omejen predogled - 1988 |
Perspectives on Ecosystem Management for the Great Lakes: A Reader Lynton K. Caldwell Omejen predogled - 1988 |
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action activities Advisory Board agencies areas basinwide binational Boundary Waters Treaty Canada Canadian charter chemical committee common concern contaminants cooperation coordination Court degradation diversion ecological economic ecosystem approach effects environment environmental eutrophication existing federal fish framework functions future GLFRB goals governance structure human Ibid IJC's impact assessments implementation industrial institutional arrangements integrated interest International Joint Commission issues jurisdictions Lake Erie lake levels Lake Michigan Lake Ontario Lake Superior Lakes Basin ecosystem Lakes Commission Lakes ecosystem Lakes Fishery Commission Lakes Governors Lakes management Lakes Regional Lakes Water Quality land Lynton K major Michigan monitoring natural navigation Niagara River nonriparian Ontario organizations perspective planning political pollution problems programs proposed protection provinces recommendations resource management responsibility riparian role RSC-NRC sea lamprey seminar specific strategy supra note toxic transboundary United usufructuary rights values Water Quality Agreement water resources