Major Research Projects

"Hawaii 2000: Past, Present, and Future: An evaluation of the Hawaii 2000 project of 1970." For the Office of Planning, Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism," State of Hawaii, December 1999

 

"Does the future matter?" Research project on the effect of judicial futures activities, submitted to the State Justice Institute, October 1996

 

"'The more democratic a polity becomes the less future-oriented it becomes.' A hypothesis" (in cooperation with Bruce Tonn, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee). Submitted to the National Science Foundation, October 1996

 

"A-P Network: Creating an network of teachers of futures studies in institutions of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region." Funding obtained from Unesco, Paris, France. Phase one completed.

 

"Electronic democracy and viable constitutionalism--initial explorations." Committee for Viable Constitutionalism (in process)

 

"Designing governance systems for space settlements" (under development)

 

"Teleworking Justice: Some remote possibilities." Phase one: Survey of attitudes of judges and clerks to teleworking in the Hawaii Judiciary (completed 1993) Phase two: implementing test sites (in process)

 

"Why state courts are so far out into the future--and what to do to push them even farther out." 1993

 

Technical Services for the Hawaii Office of State Planning's "Pilot Project on Scenario Building and Future Development." 1993

 

"Visioning and the Courts: A Capacity Building Project" in cooperation with the National Center for State Courts and the Institute for Alternative Futures. Funded by the State Justice Institute, 1992-93

 

"Future Demographic Changes & Culturally-Appropriate Dispute Resolution Procedures" (funded by the State Justice Institute, Alexandria, VA). Results first presented at a Plenary Session of the Hawaii Judicial Foresight Conference, January 7, 1991

 

"The Futures and the Courts" (a book and a monograph based on a conference sponsored by the American Judicature Society) 1991-92

 

"The Politics of Sea Level Rise with special attention to the Republic of the Marshalls," funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, The Pacific Basin Development Council, the University of Hawaii Research Council, and the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research, 1989

 

"High Technology for Small, Remote Islands," Lecture Series and workshops funded by GTE. Speakers from China, Japan, Peru, and California, 1987-88

 

"Social Impacts of Telecommunications on Pacific Island Communities--Present and Future," funded by GTE-Laboratories, 1985-86

 

"Science and Technology Policy for Small Communities," Funded by the McInery Foundation, 1985

 

"Earth 2020," National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1974. Teachers' Institute on problems of planetary management, for Hawaii high school and college teachers.

 

"Hawaii Alternative Futures Decision-Aiding Model/Display" Dynamic systems model/display to aid State decision-makers in the public and private sector to anticipate the probable social, economic, and environmental consequences of actions or inactions in the present. Supported by grant from the Office of the Hawaii State Legislative Auditor; the State Bicentennial Commission, and various business and labor groups, 1972-74

 

United States Office of Education, EPDA Civics Institute in political science for teachers and administrators in economically disadvantaged areas, Summer 1968

American Council of Learned Societies, 1965, survey (N=980) of the socio-religious attitudes of Tokyo citizens