2013 WOA Integrated Arctic Management

We recognize that in order to take full advantage, we will have to be proactive in our approach to managing the perception of the changes from past patterns, the demands of current surprising changes, and must impart strong policies and action to adapt to the undeniable future to come. [...] The goals of IAM are to reduce the conflicts, and the perceptions of conflicts, among the users of the Arctic. [...] The SDMI is a State program implemented by the University of Alaska and Alaska Departments of: Natural Resources; Military and Veteran Affairs; Public Transportation and Public Facilities; Environmental Conservation; Fish and Game; and Commerce, Community and Economic Development, and is endorsed by the Governor. [...] Other examples of proactive efforts to provide IAM are: the shared Arctic subsistence quotas; the Alaska Arctic Policy Commission; the international Arctic search and rescue agreements and oil spill response agreements; the Magnuson-Stevens Act; the North Slope Science Initiative; and the Red Dog Mine closure reclamation plan. [...] Connect efforts with the Joint Arctic vision of the North Slope Borough, the Northwest Arctic Borough, and the communities of the Bering Straits region.