Author: Susan AlexanderPublisher:
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Category : Alaska, Southeast
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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Economic Analysis of Southeast Alaska
Author: Susan AlexanderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska, Southeast
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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A Subregional Economic Analysis of Alaska
Author: Economic Growth and Change in Southeast Alaska
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Alaska, Southeast
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This report focuses on economic trends since the 1970s in rural southeast Alaska. These trends are compared with those in the Nation and in nonmetropolitan areas of the country to determine the extent to which the economy in rural southeast Alaska is affected by regional activity and by larger market forces. Many of the economic changes occurring in rural southeast Alaska, such as the decline in the manufacturing sector, are reflections of broad-scale changes in the greater U.S. economy. Other changes, such as the increase in nonwage income as a percentage of total income, have been greater in rural southeast Alaska than at the larger scales of comparison. In chapter 1, Robertson describes these changes and their underlying causes and outlines some of their implications for the management of the Tongass National Forest. Providing forest-based recreational opportunities and aesthetic amenities is becoming increasingly important as tourism and residential activity compose a larger portion of the regions economy. In chapter 2, Crone provides a historical context for the economic changes in rural southeast Alaska. She also establishes the global context for these changes, concluding that forces at local, national, and international scales have shaped economic growth patterns in rural southeast Alaska.
Economic Development in Alaska
Author: United States. Federal Field Committee for Development Planning in AlaskaPublisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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A Test of the Economic Base Hypothesis in the Small Forest Communities of Southeast Alaska
Author: Guy C. RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Recent harvest declines in the Western United States have focused attention on the question of economic impacts at the community level. The impact of changing timber-related economic activity in a given community on other local activity and the general economic health of the community at large has been a persistent and often contentious issue in debates surrounding forest policy decisions. The economic base hypothesis, in which changes in local export-related economic activity are assumed to cause changes in economic activity serving local demand, is a common framework for understanding impacts of forest policy decisions and forms the basis of models commonly used to provide estimates of expected local impacts under different policy options. This study uses community-specific, time-series employment data to test the economic base hypothesis in the small, semi-isolated communities of southeast Alaska. Estimates were derived for each of 15 communities. Export-related activity was not found to cause changes in economic activity serving local demand for the average community. However, the results indicated statistically significant differences among communities in their response to shocks in export related activity. The implications of these results for policy, and for the theory and practice of modeling economic impacts at small spatial scales, are explored in the final sections of this study. Specifically, secondary economic impacts cannot be taken as a foregone conclusion in policy analysis, and the fundamental assumptions of static impact modeling approaches deserve greater scrutiny.
The Alaska Economy Performance Report
Author: AlaskaAlaska's Population and Economy: Analysis
Author: George William RogersPublisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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State Quarterly Economic Developments
Author: United States. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Regional Economic Analysis DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Tourism and Its Effects on Southeast Alaska Communities and Resources
Author: Lee K. CervenyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428987681
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Tourism has become integral to southeast Alaska¿s regional economy & has resulted in changes to the social & cultural fabric of community life as well as to natural resources used by Alaskans. This study incorporates an ethnographic approach to trace tourism development in three rural southeast Alaska communities featuring different levels & types of tourism. In addition, the effects of tourism from the perspectives of local residents are explored, including economic effects, sociocultural effects, & effects on human uses of natural resources. Illustrations.
A Technical Study of Investment Opportunities in Southeastern Alaska
Author: Wolf Management ServicesPublisher:
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Category : Industrial promotion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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