Conference Proceedings: Actions Toward a
Sustainable Great Lakes
View the conference proceedings
online at http://www.glc.org/announce/05/SustainabilityProceedings.pdf
In
May of 2004, over 200 policymakers, opinion leaders and stakeholders throughout
the binational Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region convened for a common purpose: to
move the notion of “sustainability” from concept to application. Through plenary
sessions, breakout groups, social events and hallway conversations, a philosophy
emerged to guide restoration, protection and sustainable use efforts. This
philosophy recognizes our responsibility to ensure that future generations have
access to a well-managed, quality resource that will meet long term needs for a
clean environment, a prosperous economy, and a high quality of
life.
Twenty-seven agencies and organizations served as partners,
collectively contributing to conference design, conduct, speaker selection,
publicity and session summaries. (See appendix for listing.)
Conference
outcomes will be of interest to all with a role or responsibility in the
restoration, protection and sustainable use of our great resource. In
particular, they will be relevant to the many priority setting and strategy
development efforts underway at the agency, jurisdictional, regional, national
and binational levels at this time.
For more information, copies of the
document or questions, please contact Jon Dettling (dettling@glc.org) or Mike
Donahue (mdonahue@glc.org) at
734-971-9135.
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Shannon
Glutting
Web and Publications Designer
Great Lakes
Commission
www.glc.org