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.
“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
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
UHERO’s Sumner La Croix participated in a panel on minimum wage, living wage, and cost of living at the Maui Chamber of Commerce 2019 annual
The King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center is sponsoring a talk on Sumner La Croix’s book, Hawai‘i: Eight Hundred Years of Economic and Political Change. The
UHERO Fellow Sumner La Croix will be giving The Seiji Naya Memorial Lecture on Thursday, April 11th. Sumner will be talking about his new book,
UHERO’s Ruben Juarez is a co-lead on a study by UH and MAʻO Organic Farms in Waiʻanae examining “the relationship between ‘āina (land/environment) and ola
UHERO’s Makena Coffman, Paul Bernstein, and Maja Schjervheim have contributed to the latest report released by the Hawaii Department of Health, Clean Air Branch on
UHERO’s Kimberly Burnett was invited by Governor David Ige to participate in a panel discussion focused on the economic impacts of invasive species at the
On Friday November 2, Frank Wolak, the Holbrook Working Professor of Economics at Stanford and Director of Stanford’s Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, gave
UHERO’s Carl Bonham was recently presented with the AUBER Fellow Award, recognizing a lifetime achievement for a center director who has demonstrated significant leadership and
UHERO congratulates Sherilyn Wee, Makena Coffman, and Sumner La Croix on the publication of, “Do electric vehicle incentives matter? Evidence from the 50 U.S. states,”
University of Hawai‘i at MānoaInnovation Laboratory — iLab (directions and map) Growth of renewable energy, reduced economies of scale, rapidly falling storage costs, network communication
UHERO congratulates Michael Roberts, recipient of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s Quality of Research Discovery Award for his article, “Who Really Benefits from Agricultural Subsidies?
Technology and institutions coevolve. Institutions can encourage or discourage innovation and adoption of technologies. Technological change, in turn, can drive institutional change. This dynamic has