Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World

By Nancy Langston

Book Overview

Lake Superior has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation, followed by an environmental rebirth in the past fifty years. But climate change, pollutants, and invasive species pose new risks. In this powerful book, a leading historian richly portrays the lake's environmental and social history and asks what lessons we should take from the lake's history to sustain its future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300244517
• ISBN13: 9780300244519
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Sustaining Lake Superior opened my eyes (and I thought they were already open!)

Langston provides a deep and broad history of Lake Superior from the competing economic interests of fishermen and pulp mill owners to the long-term health impacts of chemical levels on indigenous residents of the Superior coast. A wonderful combination of science and community development.