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What happened to Fairbanks? : the effects of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline on the community of Fairbanks, Alaska

Title
What happened to Fairbanks? : the effects of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline on the community of Fairbanks, Alaska / Mim Dixon.
Author
Dixon, Mim.
Publication
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1978.

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Description
xviii, 337 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
Examines the effects of pipeline construction on the Fairbanks community.
Series Statement
The Social impact assessment series ; no. 1
Uniform Title
Social impact assessment series ; no. 1.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Petroleum pipelines > Social aspects > Alaska > Fairbanks
  • Social change
  • Social problems
  • social issues
  • Social aspects
  • Social change
  • Social conditions
  • Social problems
  • social implication
  • petroleum
  • pipeline
  • community
  • quality of life
  • environment
  • urbanization
  • employment opportunity
  • labour relations
  • working conditions
  • living conditions
  • social change
  • mental health
  • prostitution
  • sociological aspect
  • Social change > Alaska
  • conséquences sociales
  • pétrole
  • communauté
  • qualité de la vie
  • environnement
  • urbanisation
  • possibilités d'emploi
  • relations de travail
  • conditions de travail
  • conditions de vie
  • changement social
  • santé mentale
  • aspect sociologique
  • consecuencias sociales
  • petróleo
  • oleoducto
  • comunidad
  • calidad de la vida
  • medio ambiente
  • urbanización
  • oportunidades de empleo
  • relaciones laborales
  • condiciones de trabajo
  • condiciones de vida
  • cambio social
  • salud mental
  • prostitución
  • aspecto sociológico
  • Fairbanks (Alaska) > Social conditions > 20th century
  • Trans-Alaska Pipeline (Alaska) > Social aspects > Alaska > Fairbanks
  • Alaska > Fairbanks
  • Alaska > Trans-Alaska Pipeline
  • USA
  • Alaska > Social conditions
  • Trans-Alaska Pipeline (Alaska) > Social aspects
  • Etats-Unis
  • Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  • bibliography.
  • graph.
  • map.
  • photograph.
  • reference.
  • bibliographie.
  • carte géographique.
  • graphique.
  • photographie.
  • référence bibliographique.
  • bibliografía.
  • fotografía.
  • gráfico.
  • mapa.
  • referencia.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 322-330.
Contents
What happened to Fairbanks? -- Gold in the streets -- $$$ -- Alaska hire and minority hire -- Outsiders -- Impacts that didn't happen -- Boom/bust dilemma -- The chamber and the churches -- Unexpected impacts -- Teenagers take over in Fairbanks -- A new spectator sport -- Mental health -- People with the most to lose and the least to gain -- Reviewing assumptions: a model for planners -- A model for social scientists -- Learning from the Fairbanks experience.
ISBN
  • 0891580719
  • 9780891580713
  • 0891589619
  • 9780891589617
LCCN
77094011
OCLC
  • ocm03559595
  • 3559595
  • SCSB-8974202
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library