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Provides more than 330 detailed essays specifically designed for the non-specialist. Covers complex business topics in a clear and concise manner.
Business. --- North America --- Commerce --- Business --- Finance
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This volume provides an in-depth look at the remediation and restoration of the forty three most polluted areas of the Great Lakes called Areas of Concern (AOCs). This binational restoration effort is unique in that it has fostered use of locally designed ecosystem approaches to restoring impaired beneficial uses as called for in the Canada–U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. In total, thirty-seven Canadian and U.S. scientists contributed to this comprehensive evaluation of what has been achieved and learned from over three decades of remediation and restoration efforts. This book will be an excellent resource to researchers, resource managers, university faculty, and students within the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem, and others interested in restoring degraded aquatic ecosystems throughout the world. No other volume or textbook provides such a comprehensive evaluation of AOCs. A foreword is provided by Dianne Saxe, former environmental commissioner of Ontario. Leading primary contributors include J. H. Hartig, M. Munawar, L. Richman, S. W. Pickard, M. L. Tuchman, R. Stewart, J. Ridgway, R. K. Sherman, N. T. French, K. C. Williams, G. Krantzberg, and C. McLaughlin.
Water --- Restoration ecology --- Lake conservation --- Pollution --- North America. --- Great Lakes. --- Great Lakes (North America) --- Management.
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"The Land Back movement is an ongoing political and social Indigenous movement. Readers will learn about what this movement is all about and the work that is being done to empower Indigenous peoples across the United States. The Racial Justice in America: Indigenous Peoples series explores the issues specific to the Indigenous communities in the United States in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. This series was written by Indigenous historian and public scholar Heather Bruegl, a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and a first-line descendent Stockbridge Munsee. The series was developed to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach race, diversity, and inclusion with open eyes and minds"--
Indians of North America --- Indians of North America --- Activism --- Land tenure --- Reparations
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Energy industries --- Industries --- Power resources --- North America. --- Turtle Island
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"Water in North American Environmental History offers twenty-five cases studies that explore the range of uses and perceptions of water throughout Canadian, Mexican, and the United States history. Water has served a myriad of purposes historically as human sustenance, agricultural irrigation, sanitation, fire protection, military defense, power generation, transportation, and much more. Water and its uses provide excellent entrée into the study of humans and the environment, not only because water is a vital resource for life, but also because water as a medium is so intimately woven into the every-day experiences of humans and into society's economic, political, and social fabric. A North American perspective is not representative of the world's water use, but it is an area with a linked history and many overlapping human and environmental features and concerns. With a continental perspective, the book explores many disparate topics without being confined to the history and experiences of just one country. The chapters are short, but descriptive, and departure points for what they tell us about the human experience in dealing with water and the environmental implications of water use. The text leads students to consider water in relation to society, and to the past. The book will be of interest to students of environmental history, geography, and the environmental sciences"--
Water resources development --- Hydraulic engineering --- History. --- North America --- Environmental conditions.
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"This is the first scholarly study to detail the history and international politics of managing water flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Written from both a historical and political science perspective, the study's primary aim is to provide students and scholars with a reliable one-volume account of the history of binational cooperation on transboundary water management for the 70-year period under consideration. The historical narrative relies on archival sources, interviews, government documents, advocacy organizations' reports and correspondence, and a wide-ranging canvas of scholarly and popular press materials focused on transboundary water management. The author offers a unique periodization for better understanding developments in international cooperation through time"--
Water resources development --- Political aspects --- History --- North America
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Navigation --- Inland navigation --- Aids to navigation --- Lighthouses --- Great Lakes Region (North America) --- History. --- Great Lakes (North America)
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"The editors have brought together a volume of papers and essays written by tribal fish and wildlife managers and researchers about the work they do. This book will help wildlife professionals and conservationists in private and public sectors draw lessons from the expertise of indigenous peoples in North America, and advise them on how best to incorporate long-established successful Native methods in their own practices"--
Indians of North America --- Indian reservations --- Wildlife conservation --- Hunting. --- Fishing. --- Native American Fish & Wildlife Society. --- North America.
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Fur trade --- Frontier and pioneer life --- History. --- Europe --- North America --- North America --- Colonies --- History. --- Discovery and exploration --- European.
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