The accidental reef and other ecological odysseys in the great lakes / Lynne Heasley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heasley, Lynne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reef ecology--Great Lakes Region (North America).

Reef ecology.

Natural resources--Great Lakes Region (North America).

Natural resources.

Great Lakes Region (North America)--Environmental conditions.

Great Lakes Region (North America).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword, by Jerry Dennis

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 + Knowing) × 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

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781628954494

1628954493

9781609176822

1609176820

OCLC:

1260401208