Download or read book The United States Canadian Great Lakes Pollution Agreement written by Fred E. Moseley and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 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 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cleaning Up the Great Lakes written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United States Canadian Great Lakes Pollution Agreement written by Frederick Eugene Moseley and published by 1978.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Controlling Great Lakes Pollution written by Richard B. Bilder and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 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 248 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 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Controlling Great Lakes Pollution written by Richard Bilder and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article is a study of the then proposed 1971 U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the long history of developing U.S.- Canadian cooperation that preceded it. The article suggests that this experience: (1) offers guidance for the solution of problems that other programs of international environmental cooperation may face, including questions of framework and approach, institutional organization and function and authority; (2) demonstrates the important contribution that can be made by bilateral and regional cooperative arrangements to the management of international environmental problems; and (3) indicates some of the limitations as well as potentialities of the concept of international environmental cooperation. The article first describes the background and setting of U.S.-Canadian cooperation regarding Great Lakes and other boundary water pollution problems and, in particular, the 1909 U.S.-Canada Boundary Waters Treaty, the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission and its procedures, the Commission's activities regarding pollution prior to 1971, and the proposed Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. It then discusses, in detail some particular aspects of the U.S.- Canadian experience in attempting to deal jointly with Great Lakes and other boundary water pollution and other problems including: (1) the need for international cooperation; (2) the role of legal prohibitions and remedies; (3) institutional structure; (4) determining objectives; (5) apportioning burdens; and (6) coordination and implementation. The article concludes with a discussion of prospects and problems relating to the proposed agreement and future U.S.- Canadian environmental cooperation as well as some tentative lessons that might be drawn from this experience. These suggested lessons include: (1) large scale environmental problems such as Great Lakes pollution often transcend mere scientific and technological treatment, engage strongly competing interests, become deeply involved in the political process, and consequently can become extremely difficult to solve; (2) where environmental problems are largely localized, as is often the case, they can usually best be addressed by primarily national or bilateral or regional arrangements rather than broader international measures; (3) governments will be reluctant to subject their flexibility and freedom of action regarding their environmental policies to international constraints; (4) even where countries do accept international environmental constraints, they may do so only at the lowest common denominator level of obligations, although again, bilateral or regional arrangements may be more attainable than broader commitments; (5) governments will often prefer loose cooperative international environmental arrangements to techniques of formal legal prohibition; (6), the possibilities for successful environmental cooperation on particular problems may however, be enhanced by a formal acknowledgment of their international character, such as in the 1909 Boundary Waters treaty; (7) the U.S.-Canadian experience demonstrates that international environmental cooperation can, if well crafted, yield useful dividends at relatively low costs and with limited political risks; (8) some of the functions involved in international environmental cooperation, such as monitoring, surveillance, and the presentation of technical objectives and options, seem best performed by institutions acting in a relatively expert and apolitical capacity; (9) even limited patterns of cooperation may produce useful secondary effects, with the work of the expert boards or other joint institutions resulting in continuing contacts and relationships among working level officials and the establishment of important informal channels of communication, coordination and influence; and (10) since the problem of Great Lakes pollution has much in common with similar problems in many other areas of the world, international initiatives to promote the exchange of experience in this regard will be useful and appropriate.
Download or read book Pollution Great Lakes Water Quality written by Canada and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rising to the Challenge written by Canada. Environment Canada and published by [Downsview, Ont.] : Environment Canada. This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication celebrates the efforts and accomplishments of individual citizens, scientists, private and public sector organizations and institutions which have made a difference and contributed to environmental progress in the Great Lakes basin"--Preface.
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 A Five Year Program Strategy for the Great Lakes National Office of the U S Environmental Protection Agency written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Great Lakes National Program Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A More Comprehensive Approach is Needed to Clean Up the Great Lakes written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 156 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 A Citizens Guide to the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement written by Tim Eder and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 92 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 Great Lakes Water Quality 1978 written by Canada and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
