Alaskan Resources Development

Alaskan Resources Development

Author: Thomas A. Morehouse

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 042972523X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Many U.S. citizens and policymakers look to Alaska as a resource storehouse for the remaining years of 1980s and beyond. This book examines the federal and state policies, economic and political constraints, and social consequences of Alaskan resources development during two decades.


The Community Development Quota Program in Alaska

The Community Development Quota Program in Alaska

Author: Committee to Review the Community Development Quota Program

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1999-05-17

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0309524105

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book reviews the performance and effectiveness of the Community Development Quotas (CDQ) programs that were formed as a result of the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996. The CDQ program is a method of allocating access to fisheries to eligible communities with the intent of promoting local social and economic conditions through participation in fishing-related activities. The book looks at those Alaskan fisheries that have experience with CDQs, such as halibut, pollock, sablefish, and crab, and comments on the extent to which the programs have met their objectives--helping communities develop ongoing commercial fishing and processing activities, creating employment opportunities, and providing capital for investment in fishing, processing, and support projects such as infrastructure. It also considers how CDQ-type programs might apply in the Western Pacific.


Alaska's Mineral Resources

Alaska's Mineral Resources

Author: Dieora Bohn

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1993-07

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 156806571X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Provides information about current Alaskan mineral projects and events during 1991, with emphasis on federal activity. Addresses both onshore and offshore areas of Alaska. Information is provided for two broad categories of minerals: energy resources and nonfuel-mineral resources. 20 figures and photos.


The Governor's Solution

The Governor's Solution

Author: Todd Moss

Publisher: CGD Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1933286709

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. The Governor's Solution features his first-hand account that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humour, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982. Thirty years later, Hammond's vision is still influencing oil policies throughout the world. This reader, part of the Center for Global Development's Oil-to-Cash initiative, includes recent scholarly work examining Alaska's experience and how other oil-rich societies, particularly Iraq, might apply some of the lessons. It is as a powerful reminder that the combination of new ideas and determined individuals can make a tremendous difference --even in issues as seemingly complex and intractable as fighting the oil curse.