Author: Michael Joseph DonahuePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
regional institutions and their respective roles.
Institutional Arrangements for Great Lakes Management
Author: Michael Joseph DonahuePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
regional institutions and their respective roles.
Perspectives on Ecosystem Management for the Great Lakes
Author: Lynton Keith CaldwellPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887067655
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
The Great Lakes
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The Great Lakes
Author: United States. Congress. House Foreign Affairs CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The Great Lakes
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Managing Wastewater in Coastal Urban Areas
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309048265
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Close to one-half of all Americans live in coastal counties. The resulting flood of wastewater, stormwater, and pollutants discharged into coastal waters is a major concern. This book offers a well-delineated approach to integrated coastal management beginning with wastewater and stormwater control. The committee presents an overview of current management practices and problems. The core of the volume is a detailed model for integrated coastal management, offering basic principles and methods, a direction for moving from general concerns to day-to-day activities, specific steps from goal setting through monitoring performance, and a base of scientific and technical information. Success stories from the Chesapeake and Santa Monica bays are included. The volume discusses potential barriers to integrated coastal management and how they may be overcome and suggests steps for introducing this concept into current programs and legislation. This practical volume will be important to anyone concerned about management of coastal waters: policymakers, resource and municipal managers, environmental professionals, concerned community groups, and researchers, as well as faculty and students in environmental studies.
Great Lakes
Author: Velma I. GroverPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1578087694
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
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.
Water Governance as Connective Capacity
Author: Nanny BressersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317000188
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Water is becoming one of the world's most crucial concerns. A third of the world's population has severe water shortage, while three quarters of the global population lives in deltas which run the risk of severe flooding. In addition, many more face problems of poor water quality. While it is apparent that drastic action should be taken, in reality, water problems are complex and not at all easy to resolve. There are many stakeholders involved - industries, local municipalities, farmers, the recreational sector, environmental organisations, and others - who all approach the problems and possible solutions differently. This requires delicate ways of governing multi-actor processes. This book approaches the concept of 'water management' from an interdisciplinary and non-technical, but governance orientation. It departs from the fragmented nature of water management, showing how these lack cooperation, joint responsibility and integration and instead argues that the capacity to connect to other domains, levels, scales, organizations and actors is of utmost importance. Connective capacity revolves around connecting arrangements (such as institutions), actors (for instance individuals) and approaches (such as instruments). These three carriers of connectedness can be applied to different focal points (the objects of fragmentation and integration in water management). The book distinguishes five different focal points: (1) government layers and levels; (2) sectors and domains; (3) time orientation of the long and the short term; (4) perceptions and actor frames; (5) public and private spheres. Each contributor pays attention to a specific combination of one focal point and one connective carrier. Bringing together case studies from countries including The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Romania, Sweden, Finland, Italy, India, Canada and the United States, the book focuses on the question of how to deal with the various sources of fragmentation in water governance by organizing meaningful connections and developing 'connective capacity'. In doing so, it provides useful scientific and practical insights into how 'connective capacity' in water governance can be enhanced.
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies appropriations for 1985
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1985: Testimony of members of Congress, interested individuals, and organizations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description