Risk Society On The Last Frontier: Indigenous Knowledge And The Politics Of Risk In Oil Resource Management At Alaska's North Slope

• Main Author: Blair, Berill
• Other Authors: Lovecraft, Amy L.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Political science; Energy; Native American studies; Beck; Fairbanks; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8555

Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010 This thesis assesses the role of modern environmental risks and their institutionalized management in the subpolitics of North Slope stakeholder groups. It draws primarily on the concepts developed by Ulrich Beck and the literature that has grown ou...