Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region

Climate change becomes "real" only in a local and regional context . . . this book has great immediate value with vital insights into the changing world of the Great Lakes Region. A critical contribution.

—Thomas E. Lovejoy, George Mason University

This engaging and well-written book brings climate change and its impacts home to the Great Lakes region, but its lessons are relevant far beyond. In their discussions of what is known about climate change, of uncertainties (and why they need not get in the way of action), and of ways of deliberately linking scientific knowledge with decision making processes, the authors set out a strategy that is sensible in the Great Lakes as well as many other regions of the world.

—Pamela Matson, Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Environmental Studies, and Senior Fellow at Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University