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Voices for the watershed : environmental issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence drainage basin /
Voices for the Watershed is a unique look at the singular and ecologically inter-connected region of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence watershed, including the headwater and upland regions. With contributions from experts from the United States, Quebec, and Ontario, this book offers an accessible introduc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2000.
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| Colección: | CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: bridging the knowledge gap- science and society working together for environmental understanding / Bruce Conn
- Introduction / Bruce Litteljohn and Gregor Gilpin Beck
- Highland headwaters: getting a good start along the heights of land / Bruce Litteljohn
- Sane friends of the mad river; downstream from Vermont / Elliott Gimble
- Over the gunnels in Algonquin: clean waters
- straight from the source / Jeff Miller
- Getting our act together; the greening of the Châteauguay river watershed
- Serge Bourdon and Phillip Norton
- Fouling up on the farm: agricultural non-point sources of pollution / Hallett J. Harris and Val Klump
- Wetland lost
- farmland claimed: Ontario's Holland marsh experiment / J. Douglas Blakey and Bruce Litteljohn
- Wild rice, midges, and cranes; the importance of wetlands for creatures great and small / Scott Stewart and Bruce Litteljohn.
- Covering the acid rain story: the insidious drift of air pollution / Gregor Gilpin Beck
- The media agenda; a journalistic perspective on environmental reporting / Michael Keating
- Reflections of a paddle pusher: retracing historic canoe routes to the Upper Great Lakes / Alec Ross
- Poisons up the food chain: the effects of bioconcentration on eagles, ospreys, and cormorants / Peter Ewins
- Rescuing native fish: restoration of lake trout populations in the Great Lakes / Thomas A. Edsall
- Making the Lakes Great: the role of remedial action plans / Gail Krantzberg
- Developing sustainability: conservation action in the Lake Superior Basin / Gail Jackson and Bab Brander
- From apathy to action: environmental issues in American Heartland cities / Rae Tyson
- The crush of megalopolis: crowding nature in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe / Brad Cundiff
- Stories from a Big City Stream: restoring Toronto's Don River / Gregor Gilpin Beck.
- Decline and recovery: restoration of Hamilton Harbour / Louise Knox
- Ecosystem in peril: the St. Lawrence River / Louis-Gilles Fran¿coeur
- Environmental sleuths: biological indicator species help track pollution / Jean Rodrigue, Louise Champoux, and Jean-Luc DesGranges
- Alien invaders: the trouble with Zebra Mussels and other exotic species / Gregor Gilpin Beck
- The Montreal Archipelago: biodiversity in Quebec's urban and industrial core / Michel Letendre
- Balancing act: eco-tourism along the St. Lawrence / Dominique Brief and John Hull
- Blocking the flow of rivers: the impact of dams on nature / Fred Whoriskey
- Great rivers meet; stirring life and wonder in the Saguenay-St Lawrence marine park / Nadia Ménard
- Bi-national citizen action; grassroots environmentalism in the watershed / John Jackson
- Sustainable development: balancing environment and economy / Michael Keating.
- Frog reflections: the ecosystem approach to conservation / Anne C. Bell
- Lessons from a woodpecker : parks and protected places / Jerry Valen DeMarco
- Learning the system from water: life lessons of environmental education / Kevin J. Coyle
- Why rivers? Why Watersheds? Life-lines of the ecosystem / Peter Lavigne and Stephen Gates
- Revelations: the evolution of an environmental ethic and career / Michael Keating
- Epilogue / Bruce Litteljohn.