Rural Alaska: The Struggle for Subsistence

Effects of Climate Change on Subsistence Communities in Alaska

Joan Eamer, Environment Canada, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada; Etok Edwardsen, Fairbanks, Alaska; Carl Jack, Rural Alaska Community Action Program (RurAl CAP), Anchorage, Alaska; Suzanne Marcy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Anchorage, Alaska; Angie Olrun, Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association, Anchorage, Alaska; Michael Patkotak, Barrow, Alaska; Delbert Rexford, Barrow, Alaska; Alex Whiting...

Perceptions of Subsistence and Public Policy Formation in Alaska

Rural food security, subsistence agriculture, and seasonality

Many of the world's food-insecure and undernourished people are smallholder farmers in developing countries. This is especially true in Africa. There is an urgent need to make smallholder agriculture and food systems more nutrition-sensitive. African farm households are known to consume a sizeable part of what they produce at home. Less is known about how much subsistence agriculture actually c...

BALANCING THE CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE HABITAT WITH ROAD ACCESS FOR SUBSISTENCE HUNTING IN YAKUTAT, ALASKA By

This thesis was an interdisciplinary investigation with the goal of balancing the conservation of wildlife habitat with road access for subsistence hunting in Yakutat, Alaska. The problem posed by land managers and subsistence moose hunters revolved around the use of offhighway vehicles (OHVs; e.g. “four-wheelers”) for subsistence moose hunting and the potential disturbance OHVs have on moose. ...

Subsistence to Cash : Economic Change in Rural Kiambu