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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811910803321

Autore

Alexander Jeff <1962->

Titolo

Pandora's locks : the opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway / / Jeff Alexander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Mich., : Michigan State University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-62895-103-6

1-60917-197-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (466 p.)

Disciplina

577.63/2720977

Soggetti

Biological invasions - Great Lakes (North America)

Nonindigenous aquatic pests - Great Lakes (North America)

Discharge of ballast water - Environmental aspects - Saint Lawrence Seaway

Discharge of ballast water - Government policy - North America

Nonindigenous aquatic pests - Control - Great Lakes (North America)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; TIMELINE; PROLOGUE; 01/ DOMINION; 01/ CONQUERING NATURE; 02/ VAMPIRES OF THE DEEP; 03/ SALT IN THE WOUND; 04/ ALE WIFE INVASION; 05/ A KING IS BORN; 02/ PLAGUE; 06/ FATAL ERROR; 07/ DANGEROUS CARGO; 08/ THE RECKONING; 09/ RUFFE SEAS; 10/ SMOKE AND MIRRORS; 11/ MELTDOWN; 03/ THE DREISSENA EFFECT; 12/ SOMETHING AMUCK; 13/ BLUE, GREEN,AND DEADLY; 14/ A CRUEL HOAX; 15/ CASPIAN SEA DIET; 16/ WHITEFISH AND GREEN SLIME; 17/ PARADOX; 18/ FEAR THIS; 04/ BETRAYAL; 19/ DIRTY SECRETS; 20/ WHO'S IN CHARGE?; 21/ MISSION IMPOSSIBLE; 22/ SEAWAY HERETICS; 23/ WESTWARD HO!

24/ SAVING PARADISE EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world''s greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The 1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry.     Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world''s seven seas increased global trade in the



Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters'' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological