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Notes for Chapter 2
- IJC, Fifth Biennial Report, Part II, p 15-16
- Carpenter et al., 2001
- Ashizawa et al., 2001
- Anderson et al, 1999
- National Wildlife Federation. www.nwf.org/watersheds/index.html .
- Tilden et al., 1997
- USEPA 2001
- IJC, Detroit River, 1997; IJC, Hamilton Harbour, 1999; IJC,
St. Marys River, 1999; IJC 2002
- U.S. General Accounting Office, 2002
and Commission of the Environment and Sustainable Development, 2001
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2000
- Rice, 1995; Bemis and Seegal, 1999; Schantz
et al., 2001
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2000
- Golden et al., 1999
- Stratus Consulting Inc., 1999
- Hornbuckle, 2002
- Wisconsin DNR and U.S. EPA, 2001
- United States, 2001 and Government of Canada, 2001
- U.S. EPA, 200l; Governments of Canada and Ontario, 2002
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The Great Lakes are a good source of treatable drinking
water, but the public cannot always safely swim at all Great Lakes beaches or
safely eat many of the fish from the Great Lakes. Although it is vitally important
for policy makers and the public to be able to track changes in such facets
of environmental quality, finding ways to report on them in a coherent and understandable
manner has been difficult. In this chapter, the Commission offers its first
overview of how specific "indicators" in the environment can be used
as signals to inform and guide policy and progress toward the restoration of
the Great Lakes.
Despite the considerable accomplishments of the State
of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC), the
current level of investment in indicators, particularly for
the related monitoring, must be increased to
support indicator development, measurement and reporting.
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