Sustaining Lake Superior
An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
1st Edition
Published on 24. October 2017
312 pages
978-0-300-23166-3 (ISBN)
Description
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior's conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change
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10/2017
Yale University Press
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Nancy Langston is professor of environmental history at Michigan Technological University. She lives on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Superior.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ONE: Ecological History of the Lake Superior Basin
- TWO: Industrializing the Forests, 1870s to 1930s
- THREE: The Postwar Pollution Boom
- FOUR: Taconite and the Fight over Reserve Mining Company
- FIVE: Mining Pollution Debates, 1950s Through the 1970s
- SIX: Mining, Toxics, and Environmental Justice for the Anishinaabe
- SEVEN: The Mysteries of Toxaphene and Toxic Fish
- EIGHT: The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements
- NINE: Climate Change, Contaminants, and the Future of Lake Superior
- NOTES
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
