Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World

摘要

Lake Superior is extraordinary. By surface area, it is the largest lake in the world, and it is bigger by volume than all of the other Great Lakes combined, containing a remarkable 12 percent of the world's fresh water. It is also an unusually cold lake, though it is one of the fastest-warming lakes in the world. As Nancy Langston shows in Sustaining Lake Superior, it embodies the environmental challenges to be faced as the climate continues to warm. Langston, a professor of environmental history and member of the Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Technological University, is the perfect person to tell this story. She made her reputation as an environmental historian with two influential histories of conservation in the Pacific Northwest and then turned to the history of endocrine-disrupting toxics. Sustaining Lake Superior is a synthesis of these conservation and public health interests, one animated by Langston's own personal investment in a lake on whose shores she now lives.