On the brink [[electronic resource] ] : the Great Lakes in the 21st century / / Dave Dempsey
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| Autore: |
Dempsey Dave <1957->
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| Titolo: |
On the brink [[electronic resource] ] : the Great Lakes in the 21st century / / Dave Dempsey
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| Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.95/28/0977 |
| Soggetto topico: | Lake ecology - Great Lakes (North America) |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Lakes (North America) Environmental conditions |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-299) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Dreams of wealth and glory -- Failing the fish -- Protecting a new home -- Degradation -- Indignation -- Manipulating the lakes -- The comeback -- Losing the lakes? -- A future in peril -- Hope for home. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | As one of the world's great natural treasures, the Great Lakes have also served in recent decades as an early warning system for many emerging environmental problems. In the early twenty-first century, as the Lakes face unprecedented challenges, we need to revisit both the wonder of the Lakes and the perils plaguing them, and to take action to protect this majestic ecosystem. Dave Dempsey weaves the natural character and phenomena of the Great Lakes and stories of the schemes, calamities, and unusual human residents of the Basin with the history of their environmental explo |
| Titolo autorizzato: | On the brink |
| ISBN: | 1-60917-020-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779075403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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