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Urban and Regional Planning Faculty

Cheryl Anderson,
Affiliate Faculty

Email: canderso@hawaii.edu


Rashed Chowdhury, PhD
Affiliate Faculty
Interest(s): El Nino – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) based climate forecasts.
Email: rashed@hawaii.edu


Makena Coffman, PhD, Economics
Faculty

Email: makenaka@hawaii.edu


Priyam Das,
Faculty

Email: priyam@hawaii.edu


Tom Dinell,
Emeritus

Email: dinell@hawaii.edu


Mike Douglass, Ph.D.
Faculty
Interest(s): Urban and regional planning in Asia; globalization and local development; urban poverty and the environment; democratization and civic space; livable cities.
Email: michaeld@hawaii.edu


John Egan, J.D., MA., B.S.
Faculty Specialist 4
Interest(s): My interest in Disasters and Humanitarian Assistance arises from my experience as a Field Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Population displacement, the organization of e... read more >
Email: jregan@hawaii.edu


Peter Flachsbart, Ph.D.
Faculty
Interest(s): Transit-oriented development, neighborhood planning, environmental psychology, human exposure to air pollution
Email: flachsba@hawaii.edu


Dolores Foley,
Faculty
Interest(s): Promoting citizen deliberation of public policy issue increasing the connections between communities and the university.
Email: dolores@hawaii.edu


Karl Kim, Ph.D.
Faculty
Interest(s): Loglinear modeling, categorical data analysis, probabilistic data linkage, distance learning, and disaster management and humanitarian assistance.
Email: karlk@hawaii.edu


Sally Kwak, PhD Economics, UC Berkeley
Faculty
Interest(s): Education, public finance
Email: kwaks@hawaii.edu


Reg Kwok, Ph D 1973 (Columbia)
Faculty
Interest(s): Political economy of Chinese development and urbanization; global networking in East Asia; urban economic and spatial planning; culture and urban design.
Email: rkwok@hawaii.edu


Kem Lowry, Ph.D., Political Science
Faculty
Interest(s): Much of my research is interwoven with my professional practice and community service activities. One area of practice and research is coastal management. In the mid- 70’s, I directed a team of u... read more >
Email: lowry@hawaii.edu


Edwin Mann, MURP
Graduate Student

Email: eamann22@hawaii.edu


Luciano Minerbi, Dr. Arch, MUP
Faculty
Interest(s): Problem solving, linking human ecology, ethnography to planning. Sustainable development, land use planning and environmental management. Place based watershed and ahupuaa management, community ... read more >
Email: luciano@hawaii.edu


Sumeet Saksena, Ph.D.
Affiliate Faculty
Interest(s): Environmental risk assessment, air pollution, exposure assessment, indoor air pollution, poverty and environmental justice, environmental statistics and reporting; science and informed decision making, public perceptions of air pollution,
Email: sumeet@hawaii.edu


Dana Singer,
Staff

Email: dsinger@hawaii.edu


James Spencer, PhD
Faculty

Email: jhs@hawaii.edu


Brian Szuster, Ph.D.
Affiliate Faculty
Interest(s): coastal planning and management, environmental impact assessment, marine recreation management, Hawaii, Thailand
Email: szuster@hawaii.edu


Karen Umemoto, Ph.D. in Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty
Interest(s): Teaching and research in planning and governance in multicultural societies, race and ethnic relations, youth and urban violence, and community building.
Email: kumemoto@hawaii.edu