WHO Cares About Hawaii??
Many people say this is paradise. But can paradise be
enjoyed without destroying it? Who should protect the natural resources and beauty of this
unique environment, and how can it be protected yet developed at the same time? Students
in Psy 412 at Miami University offer their analyses of certain aspects of these questions
as they specifically relate to the island of Maui.
Who Cares About Hawaii?? Perhaps everyone should. [photo courtesy of the Lahaina News.]
Our Analyses
Background: Team Investigations of Basic Questions Relating to (a) Demographics, (b) Economy & Development, (c) Ecology, and (d) the Cultural Significance of areas that are targets for development.
Psychological Analyses of Issues and Potential Solutions:
Overdevelopment of North Beach: A Psychological Analysis
Values as
Sources of Economic and Cultural Conflict
Ecotourism --Is it Really Worth It?
El Niņo, Listen Now or Pay Later: Current Environmental Problems
and Long-Term Solutions
Some Specific Environmental Issues Facing the Island of Maui
(articles used by permission of the Lahaina News and the Maui News):Land:
What's Wrong with Agricultural Zoning? (10/30/97)
Oops -- Supreme Court Overturns Maui Planning Commission
(11/6/97)
Oops 2 -- Ruling Leaves Attorneys Scrambling (11/6/97)
Nice Address: North
Beach
Commission Balks at Legal Advice (10/29/97)
Take a Tour (8/18/97)
Point-Counterpoint (8/14/97)
Another Park? (8/18/97)
Some Individual Views (8/14/97)
Council Discusses North Beach Agreement (11/2/97)
Air:
Clean Air, Clean Fields -- Take Your Pick (10/27/97)
What will the committee
say? (8/19/97)
Not everything that blooms in Hawaii is a flower (7/24/97)
Conserving the Iao Aquifer (9/15/97)
Meters for Maui (9/12/97)
Culture Clash: El Nino meets Maui (9/17/97)
Pineapple versus Taro versus ????? (10/6/97)
Restricting the Restrictions: More on Meters (10/17/97)
Cheating the Meters? (10/22/97)
A Question of Water Equity (10/24/97)
Easing the Pressure on Iao (10/24/97)
When is a Rainforest Not Necessarily a Good Thing?
Earth Maui Nature Summit 8/27 - 8/31/97
The Latest from the Lahaina News & the Maui News
Team Project Assignments
Psy 412 Miami University. Last revised: . This document has been accessed times since July 15, 1997. Comments & Questions to R. Sherman . Also See: Social Psychology at Miami University