Value of Hawai'i Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future

Name: Value of Hawai'i Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future
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ISBN: 9780824835293

ISBN-10: 0824835298

ISBN-13: 9780824835293

Edition: 2010

Authors: Craig Howes, Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio

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How did we get here? Three-and-a-half-day school weeks. Prisoners farmed out to the mainland. Tent camps for the migratory homeless. The steady degradation of already degraded land. The contributors to The Value of Hawai'i outline the origins of our current state, and offer points of departure for a Hawai'i-wide debate on our future. The brief essays address a wide range of topics-Education, the Environment, Hawaiian Issues, Tourism, the Arts, Political Culture, Law, Labor, the Military, Transportation, Homelessness, and many more-but the contributors share a belief that taking stock of where we are right now, what we need to remember, and what we need to preserve and to change, is the…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 7/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio is dean of Hawai#699;inui#257;kea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and professor at Kamakak#363;okalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai#699;i at M#257;noa.



A Note on the Text and Acknowledgments


Intrduction







Reinventing Hawai'i



Hawaiian Issues







The Economy



Tourism



Agriculture



The Military



Race/Ethnicity



Labor



Transportation







Government



Law and the Courts



Public Education



University of Hawai'i



Prisons







Social Services



Homelessness



Domestic Violence



Health and Healthcare



Arts



Journalism







Terrestrial Ecosystems



Climate Change



Energy



Water



Sovereign Ground



Historic Preservation



Hawaiian Sustainability







Ha'ena



Notes and Further Readings


Contributors