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AV����̳’s Changing Arctic: Issues and Trends

May 08, 2023

The final video for the AV����̳’s Changing Arctic Issues and Trends report series, a capstone video, has been launched, targeting the AV����̳ state legislature. The final video, , 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 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 AV����̳ citizens, and addresses the first of four priority lines of effort identified in AV����̳’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 AV����̳ and the Arctic that are most likely to require legislative decision-making in the near future.