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United States Arctic Interests

The 1980s and 1990s

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. William E. Westermeyer

    1. Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA

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  2. Kurt M. Shusterich

    1. Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. United States Arctic Interests: Background for Policy

    • William E. Westermeyer
    Pages 1-18

  3. Arctic Oil and Gas: Policy Perspectives

    • John A. Dugger
    Pages 19-38

  4. Conventional Hydrocarbons in the United States Arctic: An Industry Appraisal

    • John Norton Garrett
    Pages 39-58

  5. Mineral Resources: Arctic Alaska

    • Thomas P. Miller
    Pages 59-74

  6. Living Resources

    • John J. Burns
    Pages 75-104

  7. The Transportation of Arctic Energy Resources

    • William E. Westermeyer
    Pages 105-133

  8. The Inupiat and Development: How Do They Mix?

    • John A. Kruse
    Pages 134-157

  9. The United States and the Role of Science in the Arctic

    • Gunter Weller
    Pages 158-177

  10. Arctic Environmental Quality

    • William Y. Brown
    Pages 178-198

  11. Arctic Resource Conflicts: Sources and Solutions

    • Oran R. Young, Gail Osherenko
    Pages 199-218

  12. Federal-State Natural Resource Issues in Arctic Alaska

    • Ned Farquhar
    Pages 219-239

  13. International Jurisdictional Issues in the Arctic Ocean

    • Kurt M. Shusterich
    Pages 240-267

  14. United States Security Interests in the Arctic

    • G. Leonard Johnson, David Bradley, Robert S. Winokur
    Pages 268-294

  15. Beyond Bilateralism: United States—Canadian Cooperation in the Arctic

    • John Kirton
    Pages 295-318

  16. Arctic Policy: The Local/Regional Perspective Nunami Qiiyanaqtuami Maliguagaksriat: Isummatillaanat Atautchikun Inuuniaqtuat

    • Eugene Brower, James Stotts
    Pages 319-344

  17. Arctic Prospects: Problems and Opportunities

    • Kurt M. Shusterich
    Pages 345-356

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 357-369
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Elliot L. Richardson The United States is finally awakening to the fact that it has a major stake in the future of the Arctic. Recognition of the national importance of the Arctic has been slow in coming despite the resource wealth that Arctic Alaska has thus far yielded. Although the United States has had strategic interests in the Arctic since World War II and active oil and gas interests there since the discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay in 1968, its interest in the Arctic has been low in comparison with that of its Arctic neighbors, Canada and the Soviet Union. What has been described by some as an attitude of neglect toward the Arctic is now changing. The notion of change has become central in most current discussions about the future of the Arctic. It is apparent that the Arctic region is entering a period of greatly accelerated economic, social, strategic, and is political change. The driving force behind the changes taking place resource development activity, and although the present scale of this activity is not inconsequential, it is small in comparison to its projected growth in the next two decades. In short, the Arctic is about to come alive. However, knowledge of the Arctic and experience in the Arctic is comparatively limited. Moreover, competing interests and differing val­ ues exist among national groups and between countries in the Arctic, just as they do in the lower latitudes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA

    William E. Westermeyer, Kurt M. Shusterich

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