Sustainability and Subsistence in Arctic Communities

• Main Author: Berman, Matthew
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska. 1998
• Subjects: Arctic Slope; wage economy; per-capita income; per-capita harvest; subsistence foods; village life; North Slope Borough; Western Regional Science Association; Arctic; Fuller; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12474

Thirty years ago, Chance (1966) wondered if hunting and fishing traditions of the people of the Arctic Slope of Alaska would survive the transition from nomadic to village life. The oil boom of the 1980s brought change to the region to an extent neither Chance nor Arctic dwellers themselves might ha...