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US National Assessment of
the Potential Consequences
of Climate Variability and Change
Educational Resources
Regional Paper: Great Lakes

 

 

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References

In this section...

Introduction

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Agriculture

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Human Health

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Smith, J., B. Lavender, H. Auld, D. Broadhurst, and T. Bullock (1998), “Adapting to Climate Variability and Change in Ontario, -- volume iv of The Canada Study: Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Environment Canada, Ontario Region.

Sousounis, P. and J. Bisanz (2000), “Preparing for a Changing Climate: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change: Great Lakes Overview. -- A Summary by the Great Lakes Regional Assessment Group, The University of Michigan, Oct. 2000.

Spencer, S. and B. Rock (1997), “Climate Change and Its Impacts on New England: A White Paper, -- in Workshop Summary Report, New England Regional Climate Change Impacts Workshop, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.

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Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

Allardice, D.R. and S. Thorp (1995), “A Changing Great Lakes Economy: Economic and Environmental Linkages, -- SOLEC Working Paper, presented at the State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference, EPA 905-R-95-017.

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Smith, J., B. Lavender, H. Auld, D. Broadhurst, and T. Bullock (1998), “Adapting to Climate Variability and Change in Ontario, -- volume iv of The Canada Study: Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Environment Canada, Ontario Region.

Sousounis, P. and J. Bisanz (2000), “Preparing for a Changing Climate: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change: Great Lakes Overview. -- A Summary by the Great Lakes Regional Assessment Group, The University of Michigan, Oct. 2000.

The Great Lakes: An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book, jointly produced by the Government of Canada, Toronto, Canada, and the US Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes National Program Office, Chicago, IL, EPA 905-B-95-001.

Walker, R. (1998), “Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Variability and Change in the Bay of Quinte Watershed, in L.D. Mortsch, S. Quon, L. Craig, B. Mills, and B. Wren, eds., Adapting to Climate Change and Variability in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin: Proceedings of a Binational Symposium, Environment Canada.

 

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