caa a22 4500 469029927 CHVBK 20180323132740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00407504 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00407504 Minns Charles Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Bayfield Institute, 867 Lakeshore Road, P.O. Box 5050, L7R 4A6, Burlington, Ontario, Canada aut Using technology to access regional environmental information [Elektronische Daten] [Charles Minns] Distinctions between holistic and presciptive technologies, and holistic and reductionist science are a backdrop to examination of two widespread environmental problems: eutrophication in the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario, and acidification of lakes in eastern Canada. Evidence is presented on a shift from prescriptive toward holistic approaches. Holistic solutions to technological limitations are discussed with emphasis on the interactive procedures people use to solve problems, rather than on the physical tools which are often employed in a prescriptive manner. Local gathering and integration of environmental information is presented as the key to macro-environmental assessments. Recommendations stress (i) the need for ecologists in every ecosystem, (ii) training with emphasis on problem-solving techniques, (iii) wide-spread use of microcomputers, a potent holistic technology, to transfer information and concepts, and (iv) local selection of indicators with the advice that they be simple and biotic. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 20/2-3(1992-03-01), 141-158 0167-6369 20:2-3<141 1992 20 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00407504 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00407504 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Minns Charles Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Bayfield Institute, 867 Lakeshore Road, P.O. Box 5050, L7R 4A6, Burlington, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 20/2-3(1992-03-01), 141-158 0167-6369 20:2-3<141 1992 20 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer