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UHERO’s Carl Bonham speaking to the Hawaii State House Select Committee on COVID-19

UHERO’s Carl Bonham Speaking to the State House Select Committee on COVID-19 (March 30, 2020)

UHERO’s Carl Bonham Speaking to the State House Select Committee on COVID-19 (March 12, 2020)

Carl Bonham appointed to Select House Committee on COVID-19

House Speaker Scott K. Saiki today announced the appointment of individuals to serve on the Select House Committee on COVID-19 Economic and Financial Preparedness adopted through House Resolution 54. UHERO Executive Director Carl Bonham along with a long list of other community, business, and legislative leaders have been named to the committee, which will be exploring how to […]

2019 Paper of the Year in Invasive Plant Science and Management

Congratulations to UHERO researchers Kimberly Burnett and Christopher Wada who were part of the team awarded the 2019 Paper of the Year in Invasive Plant Science and Management.

Just Published: “Macroeconomic Forecasting in the Era of Big Data”

By Peter Fuleky Big data analysis has a long history in macroeconomics. In 1937, National Bureau of Economic Research researchers Wesley Mitchell and Arthur Burns used 487 monthly and quarterly economic time series to advise policy makers on the state of the US business cycle. Since then advances in information technology and its ubiquitous use […]

Publication: Who Are we Measuring and Modeling for? Supporting Multilevel Decision‐Making in Watershed Management

UHERO and an international partnership, ClimateWise, tackled the question of how hydrological ecosystem service information is actually used in decision making in watershed management programs. Linking hydrological monitoring and modeling efforts to actual user needs increases the relevance and uptake of these studies and has important implications for where researchers should focus their energy. As […]

Publication: Do Natural Disasters Make Sustainable Growth Impossible?

“Do Natural Disasters Make Sustainable Growth Impossible?” has been published in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change. This paper considers the prospects for sustainable growth using expected utility models of optimal investment under threat from natural disasters. Natural disasters reduce capital stocks and disrupt the optimal consumption and felicity paths. Prudent disaster preparedness includes precautionary investment […]

Governing Green Power III: Refining Plans for the Electricity Grid of the Future

University of Hawai‘i at MānoaEast West Center — Pacific Room (directions and map) GGP’s goal is to hasten a fair and efficient transformation to renewable energy by focusing on necessary institutional changes. Earlier conferences focused on inefficiencies of current policies, the need for improved rate design to incentivize load shifting and demand response, and challenges […]