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Titolo: | Voices for the watershed [[electronic resource] ] : environmental issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence drainage basin / / edited by Gregor Gilpin Beck and Bruce Littlejohn |
Pubblicazione: | Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.739/4/09714 |
Soggetto topico: | Water - Pollution - Saint Lawrence River Watershed |
Water quality management - Saint Lawrence River Watershed | |
Water - Pollution - Great Lakes (North America) | |
Water quality management - Great Lakes (North America) | |
Environmental protection - Saint Lawrence River Watershed | |
Environmental protection - Great Lakes (North America) | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | LitteljohnBruce M BeckGregor Gilpin <1964-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro; Contents; Foreword; SECTION 1 Voices for the Watershed; SECTION 2 Finding a Voice; Appendices; Author Biographies; Acknowledgments; Index; Prologue: Bridging the Knowledge Gap - Science and Society Working Together for Environmental Understanding; Introduction; Headwaters and Upland Regions; The Great Lakes; The St Lawrence River; Watershed Perspectives; Revelations: The Evolution of an Environmental Ethic and Career; Epilogue; Conservation Organizations; Selected References and Notes; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
Highland Headwaters: Getting a Good Start along the Heights of LandSane Friends of the Mad River: Downstream from Vermont; Over the Gunnels in Algonquin: Clean Waters - Straight from the Source; Getting Our Act Together: The Greening of the Châteauguay River Watershed; Fouling Up on the Farm: Agricultural Non-Point Sources of Pollution; Wetland Lost - Farmland Claimed: Ontario's Holland Marsh Experiment; Wild Rice, Midges, and Cranes: The Importance of Wetlands for Creatures Great and Small; Covering the Acid Rain Story: The Insidious Drift of Air Pollution | |
The Media Agenda: A Journalistic Perspective on Environmental ReportingReflections of a Paddle Pusher: Retracing Historic Canoe Routes to the Upper Great Lakes; Poisons up the Food Chain: The Effects of Bioconcentration on Eagles, Ospreys, and Cormorants; Rescuing Native Fish: Restoration of Lake Trout Populations in the Great Lakes; Making the Lakes Great: The Role of Remedial Action Plans; Developing Sustainability: Conservation Action in the Lake Superior Basin; From Apathy to Action: Environmental Issues in American Heartland Cities | |
The Crush of Megalopolis: Crowding Nature in Ontario's Golden HorseshoeStories from a Big City Stream: Restoring Toronto's Don River; Decline and Recovery: Restoration of Hamilton Harbour; Ecosystem in Peril: The St Lawrence River; Environmental Sleuths: Biological Indicator Species Help Track Pollution; Alien Invaders: The Trouble with Zebra Mussels and Other Exotic Species; The Montreal Archipelago: Biodiversity in Quebec's Urban and Industrial Core; Balancing Act: Eco-Tourism along the St Lawrence; Blocking the Flow of Rivers: The Impact of Dams on Nature | |
Great Rivers Meet: Stirring Life and Wonder in the Saguenay-St Lawrence Marine ParkBi-National Citizen Action: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Watershed; Sustainable Development: Balancing Environment and Economy; Frog Reflections: The Ecosystem Approach to Conservation; Lessons from a Woodpecker: Parks and Protected Places; Learning the System from Water: Life Lessons of Environmental Education; Why Rivers? Why Watersheds? Life-Lines of the Ecosystem | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Voices for the watershed |
ISBN: | 0-7735-6816-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910452710203321 |
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