Download or read book Selection of Indicators for Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Health written by Nancy Stadler-Salt and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selection of Indicators for Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Health written by Paul E. Bertram and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 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 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 The State of the Great Lakes 2003 written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Conceptual Approach for the Application of Biological Indicators of Ecosystem Quality in the Great Lakes Basin written by International Joint Commission and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Final Report written by International Joint Commission. Indicators Implementation Task Force and published by Windsor, Ont. : International Joint Commission. This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Joint Commission established the Indicators Implementation Task Force to assist in implementing integrative indicators of Great Lakes Basin ecosystem integrity. This report reviews activities of the Task Force, including its research of Great Lakes databases, technical reviews, and workshop proceedings. It explains the Task Force relationship with the State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC), and compares the Task Force proposed suite of indicators with the SOLEC suite with regard to desired outcomes related to swimmability, fishability, drinkability, population health, economic viability, & others. The final section includes recommendations regarding data & information management, implementation & development of indicators, and long-term involvement by the Commission. The appendix reviews other initiatives using environmental indicators.
Download or read book Health related Indicators for the Great Lakes Basin Population written by Canada. Health Canada and published by Environment Canada. This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographics, pollution, water, air, mercury, disease, cancer, birth defects.
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 Environmental Indicators for North America written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2006 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the environment of North America is not dissected by political borders, Canada and the United States often measure environmental conditions and report on them using different indicators. This report examines the environmental indicators used by both nations, and based on analysis of current research into common methodologies used in national, regional and global environmental reporting, it goes on to draw lessons for the development of bilateral indicators to cover the North American region.
Download or read book State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference 1998 written by Paul E. Bertram and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing for Healthy Ecosystems written by David J. Rapport and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the critical issues of our time is the dwindling capacity of the planet to provide life support for a large and growing human population. Based on a symposium on ecosystem health, Managing for Healthy Ecosystems identifies key issues that must be resolved if there is to be progress in this complex area, such as: Evolving methods f
Download or read book Technical Report on Ecosystem Indicators written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 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 Great Lakes written by John B. Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coastal Wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes written by Thomas P. Simon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 542 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 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Application of indicators for the assessment of ecosystem health; Application of ecological indicators to assess environmental quality in coastal zones and transitional waters: two case studies; Development and application of ecosystem health indicators in the North American Great Lakes Basin; Application of ecological and thermodynamic indicators for the assessment of lake ecosystem health; Ecosystem health assessment and bioeconomic analysis in coastal lagoons; Applications of ecological and thermodynamic indicators for the assessment of the ecosystem health of coastal areas; Application of ecological indicators for assessing health of marine ecosystem; Using ecological indicators in a whole-ecosystem wetland experiment; The joint use of energy and emergy as indicators of ecosystems performances; Application of thermodynamic indices to agro-ecosystems; Ecosystem indicators for the integrated management of landscape health and integrity; Multi-scale resilience estimates for health assessment of real habitats in a landscape; Emergy, transformity, and ecosystem health; Mass accounting and mass-based indicators; The health of ecosystems: the Ythan Estuart case study; Assessing marine ecosystem health - concepts and indicators, with reference to the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine.
