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parameters for the case of the Brown treesnake in Hawaii. Results suggest that it is more advantageous to spend money finding the … accidental discovery may save Hawaii tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in future damages, interdiction expenditures, and …
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arrivals from the US Mainland to Hawaii are driven by fundamentals such as real personal income and the cost of the trip, and …
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simple to implement. We study the extent to which tourist arrivals from the US Mainland to Hawaii are driven by fundamentals …
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This report provides quantitative and qualitative measures of the impact of same-sex marriage on Hawai'i's economy and …
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This article recounts the early years of one of the most successful tourist destinations in the world, Hawaii, from … about 1870 to 1940. Tourism began in Hawaii when faster and more predictable steamships replaced sailing vessels in trans …-Pacific travel. Governments (international, national, and local) were influential in shaping the way Hawaii tourism developed, from …
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May 1960, a devastating tsunami struck the city of Hilo on the island of Hawaii. Remarkably, there was no significant …
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-disaster planning and policy decisions. We focus on the 1960 tsunami and the 1992 Hurricane Iniki on Hawaii and Kauai islands … macro---economy for the Hilo region in Hawaii and the immediate aftermath of the tsunami. We use Hurricane Iniki to …
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In 2001, the State of Hawaii established a 100 percent tax credit to promote investment in several targeted high … technology industries. We chronicle the evolution of Hawaii’s high technology tax credits, describe their provisions, and catalog …
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error correction model of the supply and demand for Hawaii tourism using a theory-directed sequential reduction method …
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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...
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