Download or read book Indicators to Evaluate Progress Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by International Joint Commission. Indicators for Evaluation Task Force and published by [Windsor, Ont.] : The Task Force. This book was released on 1996 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the governments of the United States & Canada have committed to restore & maintain the chemical, physical, & biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem. To fulfill its mandate to evaluate Agreement progress and provide advice to governments, the International Joint Commission requires data & information. The Commission has identified, as one priority activity, the identification of indicators to evaluate Agreement progress. Consequently, it established an Indicators for Evaluation Task Force in 1993 which undertook to develop an appropriate framework & indicators which would facilitate the Commission's evaluation of Agreement progress. This report begins with background on the Agreement, the Task Force, the Commission's approach to evaluation, and the Task Force's investigations. Chapter 2 describes the concept of indicators. Chapter 3 presents indicator organizing principles and an ecosystem-based methodology. Chapter 4 describes a framework for evaluation of Agreement progress which relates the Agreement purpose (ecosystem integrity) to desired outcomes, indicators to characterize each desired outcome, associated data & information to support each indicator, and relevant stresses. Chapter 5 identifies nine selected desired outcomes for the Great Lakes basin ecosystem, along with representative indicators & associated measurements that can be used to evaluate Agreement progress. Chapter 6 presents conclusions & recommendations.
Download or read book Indicators to Evaluate Progress Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Report on Ecosystem Indicators written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are the Great Lakes doing and what progress are we making in protecting and restoring them? These are two of the most frequently asked questions about the largest source of surface fresh water in the world. Unfortunately, we do not have simple answers for them. With the tremendous efforts and resources invested in restoration by governments, the private sector, and non-profit organizations in the United States and Canada over the past 40 years, we need to be able to respond much more clearly and definitively in the future. Recognizing this, the International Joint Commission (IJC) through its Science Advisory Board and Water Quality Board initiated a project to put the Great Lakes community in a position to respond. The focus of the work is to identify a limited number of ecosystem indicators especially important to the health of the Great Lakes basin ecosystem and which tell us the most about it. Extensive work has been done over the years to measure the condition of the Lakes as part of the State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC), and this work will form the basis for many of the indicators. What is being done now is selecting "the fewest that tell us the most." The need for key indicators is even greater now with a new Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (the Agreement) between the United States and Canada. The two countries have determined that we should be able to drink the water, eat the fish, and swim at the beaches. To assess progress toward these goals and the overall condition of the Lakes, the indicators presented in this report are aligned with the chemical, physical and biological integrity framework included in the Agreement. The focus here is on ecological indicators. Indicators for public health will be covered in a separate, but related, report.
Download or read book Priorities and Progress Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Lakes an overall strategy and indicators for measuring progress are needed to better achieve restoration goals written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1993 95 Priorities and Progress Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Priorities and Progress Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation Guidelines for Ecological Indicators written by Laura E. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation guidelines for ecological indicators written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1997 99 Priorities and Progress Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To manage its human & financial resources, the International Joint Commission establishes priorities based on advice it receives from its advisory boards. This report lists Commission priorities for 1997-99 and defines & describes specific investigations undertaken to support each priority in chapters prepared by four advisory groups. Findings, conclusions, and recommendations arising from these investigations are also presented. Chapter 1 is from the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board and covers such matters as critical pollutants, water quality criteria, remedial action plans, non-point pollution sources, and emerging issues. Chapter 2 is from the Great Lakes Water Quality Board, covering such topics as environmental protection, regulating point sources, contaminated sediment, and impacts of aquaculture. Chapter 3 reviews findings from status assessments & other initiatives related to human health. Chapter 4, from the Indicators Implementation Task Force, reviews activities to investigate environmental indicators that could be used to monitor progress under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Chapter 5, from the Great Lakes Council of Research Managers, summarizes activities related to identification of research needs & priorities. The last chapter is from the International Air Quality Advisory Board and includes a review of air contaminant modelling research and a summary of an air quality workshop.
Download or read book Focus on International Joint Commission Activities written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health written by Sven E. Jorgensen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-01-27 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of ecosystem health explores the interactions between natural systems, human health, and social organization. As decision makers require a sound, modular approach to environmental management and sustainable development, ecosystem health assessment indicators are increasingly used across any number of applications. The Handbook of Ecologic
Download or read book Biennial Report Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978 written by International Joint Commission and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Lakes Water Quality and Restoration Efforts written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Program Evaluation written by G. J. Knaap and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneer work in a complex, interdisciplinary, and still-developing field explores the prospects for a more comprehensive approach to evaluating environmental programs. Experts in the fields of biology, chemistry, ecology, economics, management, planning, sociology, political science, and public administration provide coherent, integrated perspectives on the task of environmental program evaluation. The essays are organized thematically, covering institutional, scientific, economic, and administrative topics. The volume will be a valuable text for practitioners, regulators, policymakers, and scholars in the fields of program evaluation, environmental policy, and environmental science. A volume in the series The Environment and the Human Condition
Download or read book Oversight of U S Progress Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Lakes Restoration Management written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
