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Book Synopsis The Great Lakes Water Wars by : Peter Annin
Download or read book The Great Lakes Water Wars written by Peter Annin and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
Book Synopsis Climate Change and Great Lakes Water Resources by : Noah D. Hall
Download or read book Climate Change and Great Lakes Water Resources written by Noah D. Hall and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Climate Change and Great Lakes Water Resources by : Noah D. Hall
Download or read book Climate Change and Great Lakes Water Resources written by Noah D. Hall and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the complexities of climatology, certain consistent themes emerge with implications for water availability: as the world gets warmer, it will experience increased regional variability in precipitation, more frequent heavy precipitation events, becoming more susceptible to drought. This article focuses on how climate change will impact Great Lakes water resources. It explores what a changing climate will mean for the Great Lakes, including possible lowering of lake levels, impacts on fisheries and wildlife, changes in Great Lakes shorelines, and reduction of groundwater supplies. Climate change will also reduce water supplies in other parts of the country, creating increased pressure to divert Great Lakes water to other regions. As the Great Lakes and other regions struggle with loss of water supplies, demand for water is expected to increase unless water conservation laws and policies are adopted. Unfortunately, current laws and policies intended to protect Great Lakes water resources from diversions and overuse within the basin are not up to the new challenges posed by climate change. The region can better protect and manage Great Lakes water resources in a future of climate change by adopting new water resource policies that (1) emphasize water conservation as water becomes more scarce and valuable; (2) protect aquatic habitat for fisheries and wildlife in changing conditions; (3) provide strong legal protections against diversions of Great Lakes water to other regions; and (4) create regional governance institutions that can help adaptively manage water resources as new scientific information becomes available. The article concludes by examining how the proposed Great Lakes Compact gives the region an opportunity to make these improvements in water resource policy and better protect the Great Lakes from the pressures of climate change.
Book Synopsis Climate Change Impacts on Great Lakes Basin Water Resources by : Brent Melvin Lofgren
Download or read book Climate Change Impacts on Great Lakes Basin Water Resources written by Brent Melvin Lofgren and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Potential Climate Change Effects on Great Lakes Hydrodynamics and Water Quality by : David C. L. Lam
Download or read book Potential Climate Change Effects on Great Lakes Hydrodynamics and Water Quality written by David C. L. Lam and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a state-of-the-art review of the climate change effects on lake hydrodynamics and water quality. Most of the engineering cases in this book deal with the ability of existing infrastructure to cope with extreme weather conditions. The case studies are intended to illustrate the advancement in modeling research on lake hydrodynamics, thermal stratification, pollutant transport, and water quality by highlighting the climate change aspects in the application of these techniques. Topics include climate and lake responses, lake thermodynamics, large-scale circulation, wind-waves on large lakes, great lakes ice cover, and water quality.
Book Synopsis Climate Change in the Upper Great Lakes Region by : Peter J. Sousounis
Download or read book Climate Change in the Upper Great Lakes Region written by Peter J. Sousounis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :180 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Download or read book The Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Climate Variations, Climate Change, and Water Resources Engineering by : Jürgen Garbrecht
Download or read book Climate Variations, Climate Change, and Water Resources Engineering written by Jürgen Garbrecht and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a broad overview of the interaction between climate variations and water resources engineering.
Book Synopsis Tribal Community and Regional Perspectives on Climate Change and Water Resources in the Great Lakes Region by :
Download or read book Tribal Community and Regional Perspectives on Climate Change and Water Resources in the Great Lakes Region written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract : Just as human behaviors are the main drivers of most environmental problems, changes in human behaviors can contribute to solutions to environmental problems. In this dissertation issues related to climate change and water resources, two of the greatest environmental challenges of our time, were examined in the Great Lakes region of North America. For both issues, perceptions of impacts and support for potential solutions were described and quantified. Perceptions of climate change and support for mitigation and adaptation strategies were examined at the community level in the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) of northern Michigan. Like many Native American communities, the KBIC is facing potential environmental, economic, and cultural impacts from climate change and its leaders recently passed a formal resolution to address it. Several key themes emerged through 30 semi-structured interviews and 189 respondents of a quantitative mail survey. Tribal members are acutely aware of climate change and its potential wide-ranging impacts, indicating particular concern for culturally-sacred resources such as the region's water. Most agree that Ojibwa values and traditional ecological knowledge need to be emphasized in planning strategies, and support was equally high for potential mitigation and adaptation measures. Findings provide critical insight to KBIC leaders as they develop long-term strategies in support of the recently-passed climate change resolution. The research also adds to the broader literature by introducing indigenous Great Lakes perspectives to discussions of climate change and environmental justice issues facing indigenous cultures worldwide. Issues related to the sustainability of Great Lakes water resources were examined throughout the region following the same qualitative/quantitative research methodology, with the objective of gaining insight on residents' motivations to conserve household water. This work was also designed with the objective of informing policy, as the Great Lakes Compact, signed into law in 2008, requires Great Lakes states to develop and implement water conservation strategies and report on outcomes every five years. Most previous research related to household water conservation occurred in water-stressed contexts, with little known about residents' conservation intentions in the Great Lakes region. Using the Theory of Planned Behavior as a theoretical base, findings from 43 semi-structured interviews and 186 survey respondents revealed that while residents deeply value the region's water resources, few practice household conservation or plan to do so in the future and few perceive others in the region as conserving water. Beliefs about water-related problems focus more on water quality than supply. Attitudes and perceived norms were the most significant predictors of household water conservation intentions, with few reliable trends involving demographic variables. Findings add to the literature and provide valuable insight to water district managers tasked with meeting conservation objectives. Both studies in this dissertation effectively incorporated qualitative and quantitative methodology to help fill knowledge gaps in the scientific literature and provide critical information to those involved in the development and implementation of policy measures, which relies on accurate readings of public sentiment to be effective.
Book Synopsis The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Great Lakes Water Resources by : Frank H. Quinn
Download or read book The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Great Lakes Water Resources written by Frank H. Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region by : Stephen Wittman
Download or read book Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region written by Stephen Wittman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report presents a summary of the "Starting a public discussion" series of eight seminars on climate change and some of its likely effects on Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region that were held at seven locations around the state in 2007."
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :144 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Progress Toward Improving Water Quality in the Great Lakes by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Download or read book Progress Toward Improving Water Quality in the Great Lakes written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Lapse written by Jenny Kehl and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The striking vastness of the world's largest surface freshwater resource, the Laurentian Great Lakes, has generated the fallacy that they are not highly vulnerable to climate change. This fallacy has created a great lapse in our research and understanding of the effects of climate change on the Great Lakes, which are approaching critical environmental thresholds and jeopardizing ecosystem services. This article takes the novel approach of correcting the disconnect between the perception of vastness and the reality of vulnerability to climate change in the Great Lakes, and takes an additional novel step to link the water risks with the economic risks. The primary purpose is to demonstrate the interdependence of the freshwater ecosystem services affected by climate change with the economies that are highly dependent on those freshwater services in the Great Lakes region. Although many believe that environmental science or ethical arguments should be sufficient to warrant action on climate change, evidence shows that policy-makers are not compelled to generate advances unless there are strong economic components. This article highlights the leading edge of climate science for the Great Lakes, having conducted 32 in depth interviews with experts in microbiology, ecology, and limnology, among others, but it also adds substantively to previous work by providing economic evidence of water risks in the agricultural sector and energy sector, which constitute over $6 trillion in value and jobs that are specifically dependent on lakes waters. The article concludes by articulating three specific conclusions: the economic viability of the agricultural sector and the energy sector are jeopardized by loss of federal funding for climate change adaptation in the water sector; the existing policies such as between sectors such as the Farm Bill and Energy Future Bill are mal-aligned and should be aligned with the water sector; and negative environmental externalities including factors that exacerbate climate change should be incorporated into the true cost of water so we can more accurately conduct ecosystem valuation and, thus, address the true economic and environmental cost of climate change on the Great Lakes and our greatest water resources.
Book Synopsis Evolution of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement by : Lee Botts
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
Author :United States. Interagency Committee on Marine Science and Engineering Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :204 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Federal Water-related Research, Development and Management Programs in the Great Lakes Region by : United States. Interagency Committee on Marine Science and Engineering
Download or read book Federal Water-related Research, Development and Management Programs in the Great Lakes Region written by United States. Interagency Committee on Marine Science and Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the First U.S.-Canada Symposium on Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Basin by :
Download or read book Report of the First U.S.-Canada Symposium on Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The symposium concluded that there is a high likelihood of a major climatic change in the Great Lakes Basin, and recommended that the U. S. and Canada establish a joint planning group to develop an integrated study of the Great Lakes Basin as a regional pilot project.
Book Synopsis Great Lakes Basin Framework Study by : United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission
Download or read book Great Lakes Basin Framework Study written by United States. Great Lakes Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
