The importance of understanding the macro-economic impact of natural disasters cannot be overstated. Hurricane Iniki, that hit the Hawaiian island of Kauai on September 11th, 1992, offers an ideal case study to better understand the long-term economic impacts of a major disaster. Iniki is...

Hurricane Iniki, that hit the island of Kauai on September 11th, 1992, was the strongest hurricane that hit the Hawaiian Islands in recorded history, and the one that wrought the most damage, estimated at 7.4 billion (in 2008 US$). We provide an assessment of Hawaii’s vulnerability to...

This article examines land-use, market and welfare implications of lignocellulosic bioethanol production in Hawai'i to satisfy 10% and 20% of the State's gasoline demand in line with the State's ethanol blending mandate and Alternative Fuels Standard (AFS). A static computable general...

<Para ID="Par1">This study assesses the economic and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions impacts of a proposed 400-MW wind farm (Big Wind) in Hawaii. Due to its island setting, this project is a hybrid between onshore and offshore wind development. An undersea cable would carry the power from Maui County, which has...</para>

This study uses Hawaii as an illustrative case study in state level tax credits for PV. We examine the role of HawaiiÕs tax credit policy in PV deployment, including distributional and tax payer impacts. Hawaii is interesting because its electricity rates are nearly four times the national...

The State of Hawai‘i and the U.S. are developing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction regulations in parallel. The State requires that economy-wide GHG emissions be reduced to 1990 levels by the year 2020 and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is developing new source performance...

This article examines land-use, market and welfare implications of lignocellulosic bioethanol production in Hawai?i to satisfy 10% and 20% of the StateÕs gasoline demand in line with the StateÕs ethanol blending mandate and Alternative Fuels Standard (AFS). A static computable general...