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Capability: Public Policy Impact Assessment

This document is a report of the results of two days of workshop sessions designed to identify and resolve some of the more thorny probIems involved in monitoring sociocultural change in rural Alaska. The workshops were held at the Anchorage Sheraton Hotel between December 16-17, 1985 and attended by ten representatives from the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the Phase I contractors, and the current Phase II contractors including five leading authorities from the fields of anthropology, sociology, economics, and social impact assessment who were invited to address problems involved in measuring sociocultural and institutional change. The objectives of the meetings were (1) to assure a thorough understanding of the MMS objectives for the project, (2) to guarantee effective integration of the two phases of the project, and, (3) to enhance the technical, theoretical and methodological approach of Phase II contractors. While not called for in the contract, the need of the members of the EA staff to cite information contained in these workshop materials led us to agree to prepare these proceedings for publication as a technical report.

 Workshop Proceedings: Monitoring Sociocxdtwal and Institutional Change in the Aleutian-FVibiM Region. (2.05 MB)