ABSTRACT
Protection and Restoration report described earlier, the authors note “when faced with a particularly damaging human perturbation in the Great Lakes, our corrective response has generally been to focus on a particular cause of stress and not on the integrated sources of stress that allowed it to occur” (Bails et al. 2005). In other words, we react to the individual problem rather than trying to seek the larger cause and overall solution to the problem. Examples of this crisis-response management approach continue today on issues such as spill prevention and response, beach health, aquatic invasive species introduction and spread, excessive nutrient loadings causing algal blooms and many others.
