Alaska’s Changing Arctic: Issues and Trends

May 08, 2023

The final video for the Alaska’s Changing Arctic Issues and Trends report series, a capstone video, has been launched, targeting the Alaska state legislature. The final video, Energy Issues and Trends for Alaska's State Legislature and its Citizens, features Pat Pitney, UA president; Amy Lovecraft, director of the UAF Center for Arctic Policy Studies; Glenn Wright, associate professor of political science at UAS; and Pearl Brower, president and chief executive officer of Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation. Brower also holds a doctorate in Indigenous Studies with an emphasis on Indigenous leadership.

The video series, based on the Alaska’s Changing Arctic: Issues and Trends report was created by ACEP’s Chief Storyteller Amanda Byrd in coordination with the International Arctic Research Center’s Hajo Eiken, Lovecraft and Maureen Biermann.

This inaugural report is designed specifically for state government and Alaska citizens, and addresses the first of four priority lines of effort identified in Alaska’s Arctic Policy, “promoting economic and resource development,” through the topic of energy. While the report recognizes the policy-making power of local and tribal governments, it highlights key interactive trends in Alaska and the Arctic that are most likely to require legislative decision-making in the near future.