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Monitoring Social and Cultural Effects, Phase I: Beaufort Region (Tr 117)

Branch
Executive
Category
Executive Agency Publications
SuDoc Class Number
I 72.
Government Author
Interior Department, Minerals Management Service
Personal Author
Brelsford T; Langdon SJ; Lonner TD; Smythe G; Worl R
Series Title
BOEM Environmental Studies
Publication Title
Monitoring Social and Cultural Effects, Phase I: Beaufort Region (Tr 117)
Date Issued
1985
Subject
Socio-economic and Infrastructure
Culture
Beaufort Sea; North Slope Borough; Cultural Impacts; Socioeconomics; Social Indicators; Sociocultural Change; Literature Review; Historical Review; Monitoring; Institutional Change; Community; Development; Subsistence; Kaktovik; Wainwright; Barrow
Obligation Number
14-12-0001-30138 TR-117
Geographic Scope
Alaska
Report Number
MMS 85-0072
CSE Reference
Brelsford T, Langdon SJ, Lonner TD, Smythe G, Worl R. 1985. Monitoring social and cultural effects, Phase I: Beaufort region (TR 117). . 564 p. Obligation No.: 14-12-0001-30138 TR-117. Report No.: OCS Study MMS 85-0072. URL: https://espis.boem.gov/Final%20Reports/1698.pdf
Abstract
The Inupiat (northern Eskimo) is the indigenous population of eight permanent communities in the North Slope region. During the last 15 years the Inupiat have experienced extensive sociocultural changes. The changes have been stimulated in part by petroleum development both onshore and offshore and by revenues which such development provides to the North Slope Borough. The purpose of this project was to analyze institutional development and change within the North Slope region from 1979 to 1983 and to design a methodology for monitoring sociocultural change on the North Slope. Implicit in both components was examination of recent cultural change and institutional development in response to effects of Federal oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The objective of the methodology was to develop a standardized approach to track OCS effects for use by the leasing agency the Minerals Management Service (MMS).