Effects of 21st century climate change on seasonal flow regimes and hydrologic extremes over the Midwest and Great Lakes region of the US

2019 ◽  
Vol 650 ◽  
pp. 1261-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyuhyun Byun ◽  
Chun-Mei Chiu ◽  
Alan F. Hamlet
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Flow Regimes ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Seasonal Flow ◽  
The Us ◽  
Hydrologic Extremes

Early Insecticide Controversies and Beekeeper Advocacy in the Great Lakes Region

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Bonnell
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Abstract This article examines the debates that surrounded incidents of honeybee poisoning in the southern Great Lakes region in the 1880s and 1890s. Drawing upon the records of beekeepers and allied entomologists from Ontario and neighboring states, it analyzes the history of insecticide use, knowledge development, and risk calculation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Here, beekeepers emerge as an important and largely overlooked collective voice in the history of insecticide controversies, contributing as they did to legislation, education, and advocacy efforts on both sides of the US-Canadian border. Their actions in response to a cogent threat to their livelihoods mark them as early advocates for environmental protection. Deeply familiar with the amenities and threats of surrounding land uses for their honey crop, late nineteenth-century beekeepers pressed for prudent insecticide use and “bee-friendly” horticultural practices more than half a century before the more familiar insecticide controversies of the postwar period. By the turn of the century, these efforts had borne some success in reducing incidents of honeybee poisoning. As the frequency, quantity, and toxicity of insecticides increased in the early twentieth century, however, powerful fruit-grower interests left Great Lakes beekeepers (and their bees) to shoulder the risks of an increasingly toxic countryside or to fold their operations, as many chose to do. For environmental historians, their fight presents an early example of the effects of agricultural industrialization, and its associated environmental consequences, on minority producers and the animals they kept.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE RISE OF POLITICAL COMPLEXITY IN WESTERN UGANDA

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER ROBERTSHAW ◽  
DAVID TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Political Complexity ◽  
The One ◽  
Western Uganda

The histories of pre-colonial states in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa have engaged scholars for more than a century. First encountered by Europeans in the 1860s during the search for the source of the Nile, these states and their rulers inspired both admiration and frustration in their visitors. On the one hand, explorers were impressed by the power of the rulers and the complexities of their bureaucracies, but on the other, they were annoyed by the apparent vacillation of the monarchs in responding to their demands. From the historian's perspective, these initial encounters soon led to questions about the origins and longevity of these states. Stories of origins were encapsulated in myths and legends that missionaries began to record around the turn of the twentieth century, while efforts to elicit lists of kings who had ruled each state introduced African leaders to European-style historiography.

Climate Change and Waterborne Disease Risk in the Great Lakes Region of the U.S.

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 451-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan A. Patz ◽  
Stephen J. Vavrus ◽  
Christopher K. Uejio ◽  
Sandra L. McLellan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Waterborne Disease ◽  
The U.S
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