The Great Lakes Cleanup Fund

The Great Lakes Cleanup Fund

Author: Great Lakes Environment Office (Canada)

Publisher: Great Lakes Environment Office, Environment Canada, Ontario Region,$cc1991.

Published: 1991

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780662187547

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Great Lakes Restoration Management

Great Lakes Restoration Management

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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The Great Lakes Program

The Great Lakes Program

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography, Gulf of Mexico, and the Outer Continental Shelf

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13:

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Great Lakes

Great Lakes

Author: United States. General Accounting Office

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13:

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Great Lakes Champions

Great Lakes Champions

Author: John H. Hartig

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2022-10-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1628954736

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The Great Lakes—containing one-fifth of the standing freshwater on earth, covering some 94,250 square miles with a combined 10,210 miles of shoreline—have suffered greatly from human use and abuse since the advent of the commercial fur trade in the late 1600s. Logging destroys or degrades habitats, urbanization and industrialization pour human and industrial wastes into the water, fertilizers flowing off farm fields feed algae that suffocate other creatures, and ships bring in exotic species that decimate the lakes’ biodiversity. In 1985 when the International Joint Commission identified more than forty pollution hotspots around the lakes, few people had faith the Areas of Concern would be cleaned up in their lifetime. Indeed, aquatic ecosystem restoration is extremely difficult: only nine of these hotspots have been removed from the infamous list. But progress is being made, and at the helm are local champions, people with a profound love of the region who lead by example and build broad, diverse coalitions in order to realize a common vision. The stories of fourteen of these champions are told here to inspire necessary action to care for the place they call home, so it may be a home to many living creatures for ages yet to come.


Great Lakes

Great Lakes

Author: Velma I. Grover

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1578087694

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This edited volume while focusing on participatory governance in the Great Lakes basin of North America also gives a comparative perspective of the African Great Lakes. The book describes the actions taken at degraded locations along the Great Lakes in North America through Remedial Action Plans (RAP) and other mechanisms, with an aim to highlight the successes and failures encountered in ecosystembased regenerative approaches. The book documents these experiences including the lead taken by industry in improving environmental quality of the Great Lakes. The book concludes with lessons learnt about revitalizing the ecosystem integrity of the lakes, which can be replicated in other watersheds of the world.