Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : implementing an ecological systems approach to basin-wide management / Lynton K. Caldwell
  • The ecosystem approach : a strategy for management of renewable resources in the Great Lakes Basin / R.L. Thomas [and others]
  • The Great Lakes, 1955-1985 / Leonard B. Dworsky
  • Institutional arrangements for Great Lakes management / Michael A. Donahue
  • A governance structure designed to learn would better protect the Great Lakes ecosystem / Lester W. Milbrath
  • Remediation and rehabilitation of the Great Lakes / Henry Regier
  • Biodancing : the 1-2-3 of Great Lakes monitoring / Bruce L. Bandurski
  • The Great Lakes as a water resource : questions of ownership and control / Julia R. Wilder : Great Lakes diversion / Sally Cole-Misch
  • Toward a more accountable process : the Royal Society-National Research Council report / Don. Munton
  • Great Lakes governance and the ecosystem approach / George R. Francis
  • Appendices: Treaty between the United States and Great Britain (1909). Agreement on Great Lakes water quality (1978). The Great Lakes charter, adopted by governors and premiers (1985).