Co-authored with Leah Minc; published in "Bad Year Economics: Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty", edited by Paul Halstead and John M. O'Shea, pp. 8-39. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (New Directions in Archaeology), 1989.

While the basic structure of responses to scarcity is constrained by the nature of those stresses which coping mechanisms must mediate to be effective, the implementation of coping strategies is predicated on the sociocultural context, which defines the range of organizational and technological options for mediating periods of subsistence stress. In this chapter, we reconstruct the spatio-temporal scales of variability in the major faunal resources of interior and coastal Alaska for the late prehistoric and proto-historic periods from variability in relevant climatic and ecological factors. From the structure of resource variability, we predict the basic structure of coping responses and examine how specific coping strategies were modified over the past 1000 years to adjust to changes in resource structure and sociocultural context.