Knight Center director Eric Freedman and University of St. Thomas journalism professor Mark Neuzil have just published their new book Biodiversity, Conservation and Environmental Management in the Great Lakes Basin.
Biodiversity, Conservation, and Environmental Management in the Great Lakes Basin
The book provides a cross-section of key scientific, policy and public administration research that may help shape the Great Lakes Basin’s future as ecologically unique and economically vital.
The Great Lakes Basin holds more than 20 percent of the world’s fresh surface water. Threats to habitats and biodiversity there have economic, political, national security and cultural implications and ramifications that cross the U.S.-Canadian border.
The new book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on an array of environmental, biodiversity and conservation issues through the work of U.S. and Canadian researchers, practitioners, policy-shapers and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including biology, fisheries and wildlife, forestry, chemistry, political science, economics, journalism, community sustainability and geography.
Knight Center research director Bruno Takahashi, Freedman and Knight Center doctoral students Ran Duan, Tony Van Witsen and Apoorva Joshi wrote one chapter on how the press framed coverage of the centennial of the death of the world’s last passenger pigeon. Continue reading
