Ecosystem-Based Management of Laurentian Great Lakes Areas of Concern: Three Decades of U.S. - Canadian Cleanup and Recovery (Ecovision World Monograph) (Paperback)
This volume provides an in-depth look at the remediation and restoration of the forty three most polluted areas of the Great Lakes called Areas of Concern (AOCs). This binational restoration effort is unique in that it has fostered use of locally designed ecosystem approaches to restoring impaired beneficial uses as called for in the Canada–U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. In total, thirty-seven Canadian and U.S. scientists contributed to this comprehensive evaluation of what has been achieved and learned from over three decades of remediation and restoration efforts. This book will be an excellent resource to researchers, resource managers, university faculty, and students within the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem, and others interested in restoring degraded aquatic ecosystems throughout the world. No other volume or textbook provides such a comprehensive evaluation of AOCs. A foreword is provided by Dianne Saxe, former environmental commissioner of Ontario. Leading primary contributors include J. H. Hartig, M. Munawar, L. Richman, S. W. Pickard, M. L. Tuchman, R. Stewart, J. Ridgway, R. K. Sherman, N. T. French, K. C. Williams, G. Krantzberg, and C. McLaughlin.
John H. Hartig is refuge manager for the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge and serves on the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy board of directors. He is an award-winning author on conservation science.
Since 1969 Mohiuddin Munawar has been actively involved in Great Lakes research as a senior research scientist at Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Burlington, Ontario. His field of specialization is phytoplankton structure and ecology, microbial loop, planktonic food web, and ecosystem health and management of the Laurentian Great Lakes.
Since 1969 Mohiuddin Munawar has been actively involved in Great Lakes research as a senior research scientist at Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Burlington, Ontario. His field of specialization is phytoplankton structure and ecology, microbial loop, planktonic food web, and ecosystem health and management of the Laurentian Great Lakes.