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James E.T. Moncur

   

Office: Saunders Hall 530; Holmes 283
Office Hours: current semester
Phone: 956 -7143   Fax: 956 -4347
Email: jmoncur@hawaii.edu
Position: Professor

Research Interests: economics of water resources: estimation of demand for water; desalination; water planning; scarcity value of water

Affiliations: Director, UH Water Resources Research Center (1999-present); Visiting Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, 1981/82 and 1984/85; Thammasat University, 1976-78.

Service History: President, Universities Council on Water Resources, 1999/2000; Treasurer, Hawaii Council on Economic Education, 1995-present; State of Hawaii Tax Review Commission, 2001/02; President, National Institutes for Water Resources, 2003-2005; Research Advisory Board, National Water Research Institute, 2005-present.

Selected Publications:

  • with Gang Qin, Clark C.K. Liu, N. Harold Richman, "Aquaculture wastewater treatment and reuse by wind-driven reverse osmosis membrane technology: a pilot study on Coconut Island, Hawaii," Aquacultural Engineering, 32 (2005) pp. 365-378.
  • "Water Markets" and "Water Pricing" in Water: Science and Issues, ed. E. Julius Dasch. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003.
  • with James Roumasset and Rodney Smith, "Optimal allocation of ground and surface water on Oahu: water wars in paradise," in Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources, Richard E. Just and Sinaia Netanyahu, eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. pp. 333-348.
  • with James Mak, "Political economy of protecting unique recreational resources: Hanauma Bay, Hawaii," Ambio, 27(3), (May 1998) pp. 217-223.
  • with Richard L. Pollock, "Accounting induced distortions in public enterprise pricing," Water Resources Research, 32(11), (November 1996), pp. 3355-3360.
  • with Richard Bowen & Richard Pollock, "Rent-seeking, wealth transfers and water rights: The Hawai'i case," Natural Resources Journal, (Summer, 1991).
  • with Richard Pollock, "Scarcity rents for water: a valuation and pricing model," Land Economics, 64(1) (February 1988), pp. 62-72. Reprinted in K. William Easter and Mary E. Renwick, eds., Economics of Water Resources: Institutions, Instruments and Policies for Managing Scarcity, Ashgate Publishing, 2004.
  • "Urban water pricing and drought management," Water Resources Research, 23(3), (March 1987), 393-398. reprinted in Water Resources Journal, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ST/ESCAP/SER.C/154, September 1987, pp. 25-30.

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