Download or read book Reports issued under the 1972 and 1978 Great Lakes water quality agreements written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report Great Lakes Water Quality written by International Joint Commission and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports Issued Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements of 1972 and 1978 and the Protocol Amending the 1978 Agreements written by International Joint Commission. Great Lakes Regional Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Report to written by International Joint Commission and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by National Research Council (U.S.) and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of findings and recommendations ; Background ; Great Lakes Basin and the 1978 agreement ; Enrichment ; Toxic contaminants ; Institutional arrangements ; Ecosystem approach and sustainable development -- Great Lakes as a system and its binational accords ; Physical and biological characteristics ; Great Lakes studies, 1912-1951 ; Background to the 1972 agreement ; 1978 agreement -- Ecosystem approach: an integrative theme of the Great Lakes water quality agreement ; Roots of the ecosystem approach ; Emergence of the ecosystem approach ; 1978 Great Lakes water quality agreement and the ecosystem approach ; Definitions and boundaries of the system ; Interdependencies of the subsystems -- Nutrients issues ; Introduction ; Control objectives and current condition of lakes ; Rationale for phosphorus control ; Phosphorus control programs ; Municipal sewage sources ; Industrial and nonpoint sources ; Problems in the nearshore area ; Monitoring and surveillance -- Toxic contaminants issues ; Introduction ; 1978 agreement goals and objectives ; Sources of toxic chemicals in the lakes ; direct industrial and municipal discharges ; Inputs from runoff and waterways ; In-place pollutants ; Groundwater ; Atmospheric deposition ; Significance of toxic chemicals being detected ; Significance for human health ; Significance to ecosystem health ; Progress in remediation ; Actions on specific toxic substances ; Hazardous wastes ; Aquatic ecosystem objectives ; Areas of concern ; Data, modeling, and risk assessment ; Monitoring, surveillance, and the problem of incomplete data ; Transport and fate modeling for toxic chemicals ; Role of tissue and sediment banks ; Toxicity testing and risk assessment ; Toxicity testing for evaluating human health risks ; Limitations of risk assessments ; Toxic chemicals management strategies ; Alternative approaches and principles for management of toxic waste management -- Institutional arrangements under the agreement ; Introduction ; Joint institutions under the agreement ; History and organization ; Existing joint institutions ; Present responsibilities ; Data collection, analysis and distribution ; Advice and recommendations by the joint institutions ; Assistance in the coordination of joint activities ; Investigations ; Public information ; New responsibility- Dispute resolution ; Other binational arrangements in the Great Lakes ; Federal, provincial, and state governments ; Parties ; State and provincial governments -- Ecosystem approach and sustainable development ; Introduction ; Depth and breadth of the problems: regional scope ; Intergenerational equity ; Information base: relationship to efficacy, cost-effectiveness and equity ; Economic significance ; Early warnings and surprises ; Network of Great Lakes ecosystem researchers and managers ; Deepening the understanding of societal components of the basin ; Further exploration of reforms -- References -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Appendixes -- Text of the 1978 Great Lakes water quality agreement -- Table: progress on commitments -- Subcontracts -- Biographical sketches of committee members.

Download or read book Special Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementation of the United States Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report Great Lakes Water Quality written by International Joint Commission and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advice to Governments on Their Review of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by International Joint Commission and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, however, other concepts need to be incorporated into the Agreement so that it can facilitate contemporary efforts to protect and restore The purpose of the Agreement is to "restore and the water quality of the Great Lakes system and maintain" the water quality of the Great Lakes. [...] The following are four areas the Commission to the development of the Agreement in the 1970s suggests be considered for the purpose and scope and its amendment in 1987:. [...] For purposes of the Agreement, the Commission However, the Commission believes firmly that is of the view that a definition of the ecosystem adopting the ecosystem approach should not lead approach should be developed that is appropriate to to broadening the purpose of the Agreement. [...] This the objectives of the Agreement and the conditions means that the scope of the new Agreement - that in the basin. [...] Because the Commission basinwide consultations conducted by is recommending that the Agreement be endorsed the Commission, of the triennial progress by the U. S. Congress and the Parliament of reports under the Binational Action Plan, Canada, it is of the view that its role should be set out in a formal reference pursuant to Article IX of and (b) the Commission's independent the Boundary Waters Tr.

Download or read book Interim Report Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement January 28 1981 written by International Joint Commission and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report written by International Joint Commission and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary written by United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lives of Lake Ontario written by Daniel Macfarlane and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowd¬ed its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy production systems to sprawling cities. In The Lives of Lake Ontario Daniel Macfarlane details the lake’s relationship with the Indigenous nations, settler cultures, and modern countries that have occupied its shores. He examines the myriad ways Canada and the United States have used and abused this resource: through dams and canals, drinking water and sewage, trash and pollution, fish and foreign species, industry and manufacturing, urbanization and infrastructure, population growth and biodiversity loss. Serving as both bridge and buffer between the two countries, Lake Ontario came to host Canada’s largest megalopolis. Yet its transborder exploitation exacted a tremendous ecological cost, leading people to abandon the lake. Innovative regulations in the later twentieth century, such as the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements, have partially improved Lake Ontario’s health. Despite signs that communities are reengaging with Lake Ontario, it remains the most degraded of the Great Lakes, with new and old problems alike exacerbated by climate change. The Lives of Lake Ontario demonstrates that this lake is both remarkably resilient and uniquely vulnerable.

Download or read book Evolution of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by Lee Botts and published by Dave Dempsey Environmental. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water quality concerns are not new to the Great Lakes. They emerged early in the 20th century, in 1909, and matured in 1972 and 1978. They remain a prominent part of today's conflicted politics and advancing industrial growth. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, became a model to the world for environmental management across an international boundary. Evolution of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement recounts this historic binational relationship, an agreement intended to protect the fragile Great Lakes. One strength of the agreement is its flexibility, which includes a requirement for periodic review that allows modification as problems are solved, conditions change, or scientific research reveals new problems. The first progress was made in the 1970s in the area of eutrophication, the process by which lakes gradually age, which normally takes thousands of years to progress, but is accelerated by modern water pollution. The binational agreement led to the successful lowering of phosphorus levels that saved Lake Erie and prevented accelerated eutrophication in the rest of the Great Lakes ecosystem. Another major success at the time was the identification and lowering of the levels of toxic contaminants that cause major threats to human and wildlife health, from accumulating PCBs and other persistent organic pollutants

Download or read book Perspectives on Ecosystem Management for the Great Lakes written by Lynton K. Caldwell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-07-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978 Canada and the United States concluded an agreement for the protection and enhancement of water quality in the Great Lakes based on the ecosystem approach to management. Since ratification of this agreement, little progress has been made in practical application of this concept to basin-wide management for the Great Lakes. At the same time public concern for the quality of the Great Lakes and their future has risen dramatically. As a result, the need has arisen for a practical, authoritative explanation of the ecosystem concept. This volume, written by highly qualified authorities, addresses these important ecological, political, and economic issues in a systematic and informative manner. In this study, the ecosystem concept and its objectives are defined. The institutional structure that has evolved for governance of the Great Lakes, the need for a more effective governance structure, and prospects for rehabilitation of the Great Lakes Waters are crucial issues considered. The management question is the single most important policy question with respect to the Great Lakes and this is the only study available that brings together all pertinent information and provides steps for new and constructive management of the Great Lakes.

Download or read book Great Lakes written by Velma I. Grover and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.