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Hawaii Post-Covid-19: Economic, Environmental, and Social Changes
Environmental Speaker Series
Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 4:30pm to 5:30pm PT
In-Person at WWU: Academic Instructional Center West, Room 204
and Online on Zoom
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About the Event
Dear Heidi,
The Covid-19 crisis has provided Hawaii an opportunity to question the long-term viability of tourism as its major private sector economic driver. Since entering the global economy in
the early 19th century Hawaii has gone through a series of booms and busts based on sandalwood, whaling trade, sugar, and now tourism. However, over the past decade the number of tourists
in Hawaii has been steadily increasing every year, but the revenue remains flat. Simply the high rollers have found other playgrounds. To make up for this Hawaii has been forced to
accept ever more tourists with much more constrained budgets and consequently a greater environmental impact. Backlash to the increase, although still muted has been growing.
Given the extreme spatial isolation of the archipelago a proposed industry that seems able to replace tourism is high-tech software services. This research using a variation of the Center
of Policy Studies TERM Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGE) explores the level of change that would be needed to replace even a modest 10 percent decrease in domestic tourism
and a similar decline of foreign tourists, and speculates on how the labor force would have to change requiring either a dramatic shift in the Hawaiian education system or potentially
face yet another wave of migrants into the islands. Parallel to these scenarios is how the environment might benefit with a lighter footprint from fewer tourists. A model of this nature
can provide policy makers with a valuable tool for moving beyond Covid.
The Environmental Speaker Series is free and open to the public. Talks are held each Thursday at 4:30pm in Academic Instructional Center West, room 204. Join us at WWU or online on Zoom!
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Patrick Buckley
Patrick Buckley, Professor of Geography at Western Washington University, has studied border issues and disputes in Cascadia over the last decade and a half. Besides the current historical
work he and colleagues have published a number of articles modeling and investigating current cross-border resource management issues in the region. In addition, he has built and used
Multiregional Computable General Equilibrium models of the US. His first study looked at the regional impacts of acid rain legislation.
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