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Sustaining Lake Superior : an extraordinary lake in a changing world
- Title
- Sustaining Lake Superior : an extraordinary lake in a changing world / Nancy Langston.
- Author
- Langston, Nancy
- Publication
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xv, 292 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- A compelling exploration of Lake Superior's conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change.
- "Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation. But in the past fifty years it has experienced a remarkable recovery and rebirth. In this important book, leading environmental historian Nancy Langston offers a rich portrait of the lake's environmental and social history, asking what lessons we should take from the conservation recovery as this extraordinary lake faces new environmental threats. In her insightful exploration, Langston reveals hope in ecosystem resilience and the power of community advocacy, noting ways Lake Superior has rebounded from the effects of deforestation and toxic waste wrought by mining and paper manufacturing. Yet, despite the lake's resilience, threats persist. Langston cautions readers regarding new mining interests and persistent toxic pollutants that are mobilizing with climate change." -- Publisher's description
- Subjects
- Water > Pollution
- Lake ecology
- Natural history
- Lake Superior
- Water > Pollution > Superior, Lake
- Lake ecology > Superior, Lake
- Climatic changes > Superior, Lake
- Travel
- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
- Lake conservation > Superior, Lake
- Water quality > Superior, Lake
- Natural history > Superior, Lake
- History
- Superior, Lake > Environmental conditions
- Superior, Lake > Description and travel
- Superior, Lake > History
- Ecology
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-277) and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ecological history of the Lake Superior Basin -- Industrializing the forests, 1870s to 1930s -- The postwar pollution boom -- Taconite and the fight over Reserve Mining Company -- Mining pollution debates,1950s through the 1970s -- Mining, toxics, and environmental justice for the Anishinaabe -- The mysteries of toxaphene and toxic fish -- The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements -- Climate change, contaminants, and the future of Lake Superior.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-5990
- ISBN
- 9780300212983
- 0300212984
- 0300231660
- 9780300231663
- LCCN
- 2017933629
- OCLC
- 1005924202
- Author
- Langston, Nancy, author.
- Title
- Sustaining Lake Superior : an extraordinary lake in a changing world / Nancy Langston.
- Publisher
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-277) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Langston, Nancy, Sustaining Lake Superior : an extraordinary lake in a changing world. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2017. 9780300231663 (OCoLC)1004848450
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-5990