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The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes

Heasley, Lynne. Book - 2021 577.789 He, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Conservation / Heasley, Lynne 2 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Preface -- Part I. Freshwater reef : a world below and beyond. At the reef -- Underwater Rashomon -- Feast and famine -- On naming and knowing -- Part II. On seeing and knowing : an underwater biography. Bad diver -- Waters that bind -- An interview about seeing -- River people -- Power in the visual -- A not-so-objective introduction to the fish consumption advisory -- Rooted in sustainability -- A dazzling discovery -- Currents -- (Seeing + knowledge) x time = hope? -- Part III. The paradox of abundance : or, problems of scale. Negotiating abundance and scarcity / with Daniel Macfarlane -- Water, oil, and fish / with Daniel Macfarlane -- Salt mines and iron ranges (an extraction index) -- The paradox of abundance -- The accidental reef.
"This book takes readers on journeys through the Great Lakes, alongside fish and fishers, scuba divers and scientists, toxic pollutants and threatened communities, oil pipelines and invasive species, Indigenous peoples and federal agencies, in order to grapple with the legacies and alternative futures that come from their abundance of natural wealth"-- Provided by publisher.

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PUBLISHED
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: x, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781611864076
1611864070

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Wolff, Glenn,
Dennis, Jerry, 1954-

SUBJECTS
Reef ecology -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
Natural resources -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Environmental conditions.