Christopher Wada
Research Economist, UHERO
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2010
M.A., Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007
B.A., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
Research Interests
Resource and Environmental Economics, watershed management
Selected Publications
Okuhata, B.K., Delevaux, J.M.S., Richards Donà, A., Smith, C.M., Gibson, V.L., Dulai, H., El-Kadi, A.I., Stamoulis, K., Burnett, K.M., Wada, C.A., Bremer, L.L., 2023. Effects of Multiple Drivers of Environmental Change on Native and Invasive Macroalgae in Nearshore Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems. Water Resources Research 59(7): e2023WR034593.
DeMaagd, N., Fuleky, P., Burnett, K., Wada, C., 2022. Tourism water use during the COVID-19 shutdown: A natural experiment in Hawai‘i. Annals of Tourism Research 97, 103475.
Bremer, L.L., DeMaagd, N., Wada, C.A., Burnett, K.M., 2021. Priority watershed management areas for groundwater recharge and drinking water protection: a case study from Hawai‘i Island. Journal of Environmental Management 286, 111622.
Pongkijvorasin, S., Wada, C.A., Burnett, K.M., 2020. Optimal multi-instrument management of interrelated resources and a groundwater dependent ecosystem. Journal of Environmental Management 269, 110723.
Wada, C.A., Pongkijvorasin, S., Burnett, K.M., 2020. Mountain-to-sea ecological-resource management: forested watersheds, coastal aquifers, and groundwater dependent ecosystems. Resource and Energy Economics 59, 101146.
Pongkijvorasin, S., Burnett, K., Wada, C., 2018. Joint Management of an Interconnected Coastal Aquifer and Invasive Tree. Ecological Economics 146, 125-135.
Burnett, K., Wada, C., Balderston, A., 2017. Benefit-cost analysis of watershed conservation on Hawai‘i Island. Ecological Economics 131, 262-274.
Roumasset, J., Wada, C.A., 2014. Energy, Backstop Endogeneity, and the Optimal Use of Groundwater. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96, 1363-1371.
Endress, L.H., Pongkijvorasin, S., Roumasset, J., Wada, C.A., 2014. Intergenerational equity with individual impatience in a model of optimal and sustainable growth. Resource and Energy Economics 36, 620-635.
Roumasset, J., Wada, C.A., 2013. A dynamic approach to PES pricing and finance of interlinked ecosystem services: Watershed conservation and groundwater management. Ecological Economics 87, 24-33.
Roumasset, J.A., Wada, C.A., 2012. Ordering the extraction of renewable resources: The case of multiple aquifers. Resource and Energy Economics 34, 112-128.