Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Socioeconomic Studies Program: Governance in the Beaufort Sea Region. Petroleum Development and the North Slope Borough. Executive Summary

摘要

This study examines relationships between petroleum development and the evolution of local government institutions on Alaskas North Slope in the decade since the oil and gas discoveries at Prudhoe Bay in 1968. It focuses on the North Slope Borough, and it attempts to explain the formation and major operations of the borough essentially as responses to the problems and opportunities that arctic oil and gas development present to the Native people of the region.