Author: Program for Zero Discharge
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Category : Hazardous substances
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: National Wildlife Federation
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Wildlife Federation
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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography, Gulf of Mexico, and the Outer Continental Shelf
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Protection
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 972

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2538

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Author: Michael Gilbertson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940115290X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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`Are the Great Lakes getting better or worse?' This is the question that the public, scientists and managers are asking the International Joint Commission after a quarter-century of cooperative action by the United States and Canadian governments to clean up the Great Lakes. This volume contains papers from the workshop on Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, on September 12 and 13, 1996. The Great Lakes have been through almost a century of severe pollution from the manufacture, use and disposal of chemicals. In the 1960s wildlife biologists started to investigate the outbreaks of reproductive failure in fish-eating birds and ranch mink and to link these to exposure to organochlorine compounds. Human health researchers in the 1980s and 1990s linked growth retardation, behavioral anomalies and deficits in cognitive development with maternal consumption of Great Lakes fish prior to pregnancy. The Great Lakes became the laboratory where the theory of endocrine disruptors was first formulated. Now a group of Great Lakes scientists, hosted by the International Joint Commission, has compiled the story of the trends in the concentrations and effects of persistent toxic substances on wildlife and humans. The technical papers review the suitability of various organisms as indicators, and present the results of long-term monitoring of the concentrations and of the incidence of effects. The evidence shows that there was an enormous improvement in the late 1970s, but that in the late 1990s there are still concentrations of some persistent toxic substances that have stubbornly remained at levels that continue to cause toxicological effects.

Author: Oran R. Young
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262740203
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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The contributors to this volume draw upon the experiences of environmental regimes to examine the problems of internationalgovernance in the absence of a world government.

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Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: Matthias Finger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113482162X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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At a time when states are reactive, at best, to the global ecological crisis and when economic globalization seems to be significantly contributing to the acceleration of that crisis, environmental non-governmental orgainisations (NGOs) are proliferating. This book explains the key role of NGOs in an emerging world environmental politics, showing how NGOs act both as independent bargainers and as agents of social learning, to link biophysical conditions to the political realm at both the local and global levels. Throught the use of case studies the authors reveal the richness and diversity of NGO activity and the dificulty of the choices facing decision-makers in their attempts to protect the environment, seek new forms of governance and foster social environmental learning. The book generates questions that are central, not only to an understanding of NGO relations, but to the study of international environmental politics. Environmental NOGs in World Politics will be of great interest to upper level student sand scholars of both environmental politics and international relations. It will also appeal to environmental-policy professionals.