Denise Konan

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Potential Benefits, Impacts, and Public Opinion of Seawater Air Conditioning in Waikiki

This report provides a summary of an investigation by the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program into the viability and effectiveness of installing a seawater air conditioning district cooling system in Waikīkī. Seawater air conditioning (SWAC) harnesses the cooling properties of cold seawater to provide cool air for air conditioning purposes. In doing so, […]

EGGS Project Director, Denise Konan Named Dean of College of Social Sciences

UHERO congratulates Dr. Denise E. Konan  for her selection as the new Dean of Manoa’s College of Social Sciences. Denise has spent the past 18 years as an economics professor and a major contributor to UHERO’s research efforts.  She founded UHERO’s Energy and Green House Gas Solutions Project and has contributed to UHERO’s dramatic growth  over the past five years. […]

Dr. Denise Konan participates on an APEC panel on PBS Hawaii’s INSIGHTS

The INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAII program will feature a discussion about the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit that will take place in Honolulu this November. A panel of experts will delve into the economic, environmental and social issues that APEC members will explore at the summit, and what the high-profile event means for Hawaii as […]

UHERO EGGS Team Presents On Capitol Hill

March 27 – 29, 2011: Members of the UHERO EGGS team went to Washington DC to present at a symposium and Capitol Hill poster session hosted by the National Science Foundation supported program, SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities). The 2011 Washington Symposium and Capitol Hill Poster Session theme was “Students as […]

Preferential Trade and Welfare with Differentiated Products

We consider analytically and numerically the welfare tradeoffs inherent in a preferential trade area (PTA) with products differentiated by region of origin. For a small open economy in such a setting, welfare gains are associated with higher trade volumes within the PTA. However, welfare losses are induced by declining tariff revenues on trade with nonmember […]

Limits to Growth: Tourism and Regional Labor Migration

The paper provides a methodology for considering the carrying capacity and limits to growth of a labor-constrained mature tourism destination. A computable general equilibrium model is used to examine the impacts of visitor expenditure growth and labor migration on Hawaii’s economy. Impacts on regional income, welfare, prices, sector-level output, and gross state product are considered […]

UHM participate in The Climate Registry

Craig Coleman, UHERO GHG Research Analyst for the Energy and Greenhouse Gas Solutions Program, contributed to an article in The Implementor, a monthly newsletter published by the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. The article, The Case For Reporting And Verifying Your Emissions, highlights the work done by Dr. Denise Konan’s group to account, report and verify […]

Targeting Hawaii Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: Emission Forecasts and Their Implications for Act 234

Act 234 calls for the state of Hawai‘i to return its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Under a business as usual environment, we forecast Hawai’i’s 2020 emissions to be between 18 and 34 percent above 1990 levels. Since transportation and electricity account for about 75 percent of Hawai’i’s GHG emissions, most […]