Northern Alaska Scenarios Project- NASP

Northern Alaska Scenarios Project- NASP This project provides space for the communities of Alaska's Arctic Boroughs to focus on their needs

The objectives of the Northern Alaska Scenarios Project include facilitating this kind of communication and conversation through social media. Let’s talk about what you would like your community to be in 2040, what would make you want to keep coming back to and keep living in Arctic Alaska? Instead of passively adapting to whatever comes, scenarios can help you actively and creatively shape what y

our home and region will be in the future. What are scenarios?
• A scenario exercise is not planning or decision-making. It is a process of asking “what if?” that enables the participants to help their communities manage risks for the future.
• The Barrow scenarios workshop (17-20 February 2015) is based on community expert deliberation. The goal is to think in new ways about possible futures of the two Arctic Boroughs from many different standpoints.
• These scenarios will enable community members to work together to manage risks to health and sustainability
(1) bringing people together to diagnose and tackle present problems so no one group is “doing it alone,
(2) by discussing and anticipating future needs as things change,
(3) creatively talking about shaping the future so that the NWA and NS Borough residents can design the processes they want to create a future they want. In short, the NASP provides the two boroughs with a process to determine and prioritize those variables most important to monitor for desired change and to assist with information and strategies to observe and track these variables for successful healthy communities that are sustainable to 2040 and beyond.

Drs. Lovecraft and Cost are back. Please consider joining us for a distance class on Scenarios Development and Arctic Fu...
04/27/2020

Drs. Lovecraft and Cost are back. Please consider joining us for a distance class on Scenarios Development and Arctic Futures. Ready to learn more? The time is ripe. Contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

08/28/2017

Amy Lovecraft will be in Utqiaġvik presenting NASP results tomorrow, Tuesday, August, 29, 2017. Please join us to see the amazing work the NASP participants produced and how it might be used for strategic planning. More details to follow.

Douglas Cost will presenting some of the same results and Arctic Futures Makers results in Kotzebue on September 25/26, 2017. Please join us for these events. Further details to be posted soon.

Thanks,
NASP team & AFM team

Finally!
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Finally!

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Interesting... no real discussion of the future.

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Hi Everyone and in particular our workshop participants. I'm sending out an email today letting everyone know where we ...
07/17/2015

Hi Everyone and in particular our workshop participants. I'm sending out an email today letting everyone know where we are and asking a few further questions about the next 6 months. Thank you all for helping us to have such a great workshop in Kotzebue! Here's the article that shows that there can be good communication and sharing that goes both ways between science of the university style and the lifeways and deep knowledge of Indigenous people. Let's keep moving forward to ensure this "merge" is respectful and useful and, as appropriate, available to all those who want and need to access it.

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07/02/2015

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