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Fiscal Impacts of Suburbanization Case Study - The Knik Arm Crossing, Anchorage, Alaska
Lee Husky and Dona Lehr
The fiscal crisis faced by many metropolitan area central cities is a well known phenomena. Much past research has suggested that the suburbanization of the population has been primarily responsible for the central city fiscal problems. This paper analyzes the potential fiscal consequences of a capital construction project that would increase the rate of suburbanization of the Anchorage metropolitan population. This is particularly interesting since Anchorage provides a case in which two of the recommendations generally found in the literature have been adopted. Anchorage has an areawide government and many of the services provided by the municipality are funded at a higher level of government (the state). We show that primarily because of these factors the fiscal effects of more rapid suburbanization are minimal.
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Alaska's Small Rural High Schools: Are They Working?
Judith Kleinfield, G. Williamson McDiarmid, and David Hagstrom
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Alaska's Small Rural High Schools: Are They Working? (Research Summary)
Judith Kleinfield, G. Williamson McDiarmid, and David Hagstrom
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Challenges to Socio-Economic Impact Modeling: Lessons form the Alaska OCS Program
Gunnar Knapp and Lee Husky
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A Social Indicators System for OCS Impact Monitoring
John Kruse and Frank Andrews
This report describes the design of a data collection system to monitor changes in the individual well-bein of Alaska residents who may be affected by OCS development activities. The system employs a limited set of indicators to provide a comprehensive description of individual well-being over time. The indicators are derived from existing data and from formal interviews with random samples of individuals. The justification for designing and implementing this data collection system is found in section 256.82 of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The system is designed to contribute to pre-lease assessments and to help fulfill the responsibilities of the Minerals Management Service to monitor the effects of development. The first stage of the design effort consisted of a preliminary identification of social goals recognized by Alaska's rural coastal residents. These goals included universally recognized concerns such as housing, health, and income as well as regionally and culturally specific social goals. These initially identified goals were then field tested through key informant interviews and a comparison of goals with current issues. The goals were modified on the basis of field test results and used as a framework for the identification of indicators of individual well-being. Individual social indicators of well-being were developed according to explicit rules. At least one indicator had to be included for each of the most detailed goals identified (sub goals). The meaning of each indicator had to correspond with the meaning of one, and only one, sub goal. All indicators had to directly measure individual well-being and must accurately reflect reality and actual change. Researchers sough to develop both objective and subjective indicators for each sub goal. Existing data sources were reviewed for potential indicators. Researchers found that existing data sources are inadequate as the sole basis for a social indicators system. Therefore, indicators based on primary data were developed, repeatedly tested and modified, and incorporated into a single questionnaire. The report describes the steps necessary to implement the Alaska OCS Social Indicators System. Data collection efforts are scheduled to coincide with the current leasing schedule. Key subpopulations are identified as the targets for primary data collection. The report concludes with a discussion of how the social indicator data can be used in pre-lease assessments and in studies of the actual effects of OCS development activities on individual well-being.
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Advanced Technology Transfer of Gerontological Training--Linkage Final Report Volume 1
Theodore Lane and Ronald Crowe
This project was designed to demonstrate how centrally based advanced telecommunications can be used to efficiently and economically train older Alaskans Commission project staffs (or other personnel) located in remote communities. This project used Alaska's Satellite Communications System to provide training to eight remote communities in Alaska from a central training station in Anchorage. Researchers used three training modes: (1) audioconferencing (via telephone), (2) audioconferencing with a videotape and workbook, and (3) televised audioconferencing. A total of fifty-six people participated in the demonstration, with an average of twenty-four attending each session. The project demonstrated that: 1. Training can effectively be delivered to remote sites through a variety of techniques. 2. The most effective techniques seem to be: (1) interactive televised audioconferencing; (2) an audioconference which has been prepared for the training through the use of an educational videotape and a workbook which can be used to guide the training; or (3) some combination of the two. Number 2, however, would be most economical. 3. The Remote training resulted in a noticeable change in the participants' knowledge of and attitudes about the training topics (for example, the problems of Alzheimer's Disease and the needs of the frail elderly in their communities) . 4. Training and other dissemination of information by remote means can be performed quite economically-- much more cheaply than by transporting trainees to a central location. Although no single program can solve all the needs of Alaska's rural elderly population, we believe that this demonstration project has taken an important first step in showing how advanced communications can be used to provide cost-effective training to Older Alaskan Commission Staffs, and others, located in remote, isolated communities.
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Alaska Statewide and Regional Economic and Demographic Systems: Effects of OCS Exploration and Development
Matthew D. Berman and Teresa Hull
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The ISER MAP Economic Database Data Sources and Derivations A Companion to the Printed Tables
Oliver Scott Goldsmith, Teresa Hull, and Brian Reeder
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