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Great Lakes River Mouths and the Region's Economic and Environmental Future

Timeline 2011 - 2012
Project Number 959
Award Amount $ 65,000
Team Leader Allegra Cangelosi | Tel: 202-464-4014 | acangelo@nemw.org
Organization Northeast-Midwest Institute
Team Makeup Academic (0), Government (0), Non-Profit (1), Corporation (0), Private (0)
Governors' Priorities Sustainable use and enhanced value

This is a 9-month planning grant that will seek to develop a project that creates a new regional approach to Great Lakes river mouth redevelopment founded on restoring hydrological and ecological services, creating sustainable economic activity, and managing Great Lakes river mouths as a network. The team will document how the river mouths are currently being used and explore how they may be used sustainably in the future. Specifically, the team will look at: 1) critical hydrological and ecological services provided by Great Lakes river mouths and the importance of each; 2) social drivers governing Great Lakes river mouth development; 3) key current economic and transportation uses of Great Lakes river mouths and likely future trends; 4) current development patterns and compatibility with ecological and hydrological services; and 5) examples of sustainable individual and network river mouth development found within and outside the region.

This planning phase will lay the foundation for a project that creates tools that maximizes the ecological, hydrological and economic services provided by Great Lakes river mouths.  



 

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