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Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Evolution of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Author: Lee BottsPublisher: Dave Dempsey Environmental
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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
Reports issued under the 1972 and 1978 Great Lakes water quality agreements
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Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Reports Issued Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements of 1972 and 1978, and the Protocol Amending the 1978 Agreements
Author: International Joint Commission. Great Lakes Regional OfficePublisher:
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Biennial Report Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978
Author: International Joint CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Author: National Research Council (U.S.)Publisher: National Academies
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Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
Annual Report ... Great Lakes Water Quality
Author: International Joint CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Water quality
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Oversight of U.S. Progress Under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government ManagementPublisher:
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Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Perspectives on Ecosystem Management for the Great Lakes
Author: Lynton K. CaldwellPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887067662
Category : Political Science
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.