{"product_id":"9780792353003","title":"Trends in Levels and Effects of Persistent Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes: Articles from the Workshop on Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, September ...","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTrends in Levels and Effects of Persistent Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes: Articles from the Workshop on Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, September 12 and 13, 1996\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eGilbertson, Michael; Fox, Glen A.; Bowerman, William W.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e`Are the Great Lakes getting better or worse?' This is the  question that the public, scientists and managers are asking the  International Joint Commission after a quarter-century of cooperative  action by the United States and Canadian governments to clean up the  Great Lakes. This volume contains papers from the workshop on  Environmental Results, hosted in Windsor, Ontario, by the Great Lakes  Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, on  September 12 and 13, 1996. The Great Lakes have been through almost a  century of severe pollution from the manufacture, use and disposal of  chemicals. In the 1960s wildlife biologists started to investigate the  outbreaks of reproductive failure in fish-eating birds and ranch mink  and to link these to exposure to organochlorine compounds. Human  health researchers in the 1980s and 1990s linked growth retardation,  behavioral anomalies and deficits in cognitive development with  maternal consumption of Great Lakes fish prior to pregnancy. The Great  Lakes became the laboratory where the theory of endocrine disruptors  was first formulated. Now a group of Great Lakes scientists, hosted by  the International Joint Commission, has compiled the story of the  trends in the concentrations and effects of persistent toxic  substances on wildlife and humans. The technical papers review the  suitability of various organisms as indicators, and present the  results of long-term monitoring of the concentrations and of the  incidence of effects. The evidence shows that there was an enormous  improvement in the late 1970s, but that in the late 1990s there are  still concentrations of some persistent toxic substances that have  stubbornly remained at levels that continue to cause toxicological  effects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1998-10-31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792353003\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-011-5290-7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 258\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46312284618892,"sku":"9780792353003","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792353003.jpg?v=1771523401","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780792353003","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}