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Pandora's locks : the opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway / Jeff Alexander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Jeff, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biological invasions--Great Lakes (North America).
- Biological invasions.
- Nonindigenous aquatic pests--Great Lakes (North America).
- Nonindigenous aquatic pests.
- Discharge of ballast water--Environmental aspects--Saint Lawrence Seaway.
- Discharge of ballast water.
- Discharge of ballast water--Government policy--North America.
- Nonindigenous aquatic pests--Control--Great Lakes (North America).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (466 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world''s greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The 1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world''s seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters'' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; TIMELINE; PROLOGUE; 01/ DOMINION; 01/ CONQUERING NATURE; 02/ VAMPIRES OF THE DEEP; 03/ SALT IN THE WOUND; 04/ ALE WIFE INVASION; 05/ A KING IS BORN; 02/ PLAGUE; 06/ FATAL ERROR; 07/ DANGEROUS CARGO; 08/ THE RECKONING; 09/ RUFFE SEAS; 10/ SMOKE AND MIRRORS; 11/ MELTDOWN; 03/ THE DREISSENA EFFECT; 12/ SOMETHING AMUCK; 13/ BLUE, GREEN,AND DEADLY; 14/ A CRUEL HOAX; 15/ CASPIAN SEA DIET; 16/ WHITEFISH AND GREEN SLIME; 17/ PARADOX; 18/ FEAR THIS; 04/ BETRAYAL; 19/ DIRTY SECRETS; 20/ WHO'S IN CHARGE?; 21/ MISSION IMPOSSIBLE; 22/ SEAWAY HERETICS; 23/ WESTWARD HO!
- 24/ SAVING PARADISE EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-103-6
- 1-60917-197-7
- OCLC:
- 774285430
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