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RECORD NUMBER: 3355 OF 4106Main Title | The ecosystem approach : scope and implications of an ecosystem approach to transboundary problems in the Great Lakes basin : special report to the International Joint Commission, presented July 1978 / | |||||||||||||||||
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CORP Author | Great Lakes Research Advisory Board. | |||||||||||||||||
Publisher | International Joint Commission, Great Lakes Regional Office, | |||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 1978 | |||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 05786557 | |||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Ecology--Great Lakes Region (North America) ; Conservation of natural resources--Great Lakes Region (North America) ; Ecology--Research--Great Lakes Region (North America) | |||||||||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Water quality--Great Lakes region ; Water--Pollution--Great Lakes region | |||||||||||||||||
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Collation | ix, 47 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm | |||||||||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents Notes | Executive summary and recommendations -- The approach -- Background -- The ecosystem approach -- Some generalities -- Examples contrasting ecosystem and water quality approaches -- Acid rain -- Road salt -- Carrying capacity -- Attitudes, perceptions, behavior -- Surveillance -- The Rationale -- Introduction -- Man-in-a-system -- Ecosystem -- Biosphere -- Nature -- Systems-external-to-man -- Water; water quality -- Aquatic environment; aquatic environmental quality -- Environment; environmental quality -- Appropriateness of an ecosystem approach to the parties and the commission -- Interim changes in the water quality agreement of 1972 -- Criteria used in evaluating the ecosystem approach -- The reply -- Answers to the commission's request -- Difficulties of melding the present approach based on water quality objectives and an ecosystem approach -- Practical means of implementing the combined concept -- Research needs -- Conclusions -- References -- Membership list, research advisory board 1977-1978. |