Abstract |
The symposium was an outgrowth of interest in pollution abatement measures for the Great Lakes. It represented an effort to resolve the optimum approach to be taken in the solution of water problems. Section I dealt with the biological-chemical physical subsystem and included development of a comprehensive simulation model of the fish resources of the Great Lakes, microbial-chemical interactions as systems parameters for Lake Erie, an oxygen-based performance model for Western Lake Erie, and preliminary policy models for Great Lakes regulation. The economic subsystem was dealt with in Section II which described an interindustry forecasting model with water quantity and quality constraints, some determinants of Detroit's regional share of economic activity in selected industries, a regional trade and structure model for pollution abatement in the Western basin of Lake Erie. (WRSIC Abstract) |