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Nori TaruiNori Tarui is a Professor of Economics and a Research Fellow in the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO). He also serves as a Co-Director of Renewable Energy and Island Sustainability (REIS) Graduate Certificate Program.
He has an MA in Economics (Keio) and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics (Minnesota). His research fields are environmental, energy, and resource economics. His research interest is in electric utility regulation, energy policy, and assessing strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Publications Award from the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (SEEPS) in 2021. Nori Tarui is also the Senior Advisor to the Dean on Global College Initiatives in the College of Social Sciences. |
Courses
- ECON 320 Economics of Global Climate Change
- ECON 336 Energy Economics
- ECON 358 Environmental Economics
- ECON 627 Mathematics for Economics
- ECON 636 Renewable Energy Economics and Policy
- ECON 637 Resource Economics
Articles and Book chapters
- Oshiro, Asahi; Tarui, Nori "Effects of alternative pricing structures on electricity consumption and payments in the commercial and industrial sector.” Japan and the World Economy (2023): 101223.
- Tarui, N., Urbanski, S., Lam, Q.L., Coffman, M., Newfield, C. Sea level rise risk interactions with coastal property values: a case study of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Climatic Change 176, 130, 2023.
- Setter, Renee.O.; Han, Rachael X.; Tavares, Kammie-Dominique; Newfield, Conrad; Terry, Alice; Robertson, Isabella M.; Tarui, Nori; Coffman, Makena “Managing retreat for sandy beach areas under sea level rise.” Scientific Reports 13, 11920, 2023.
- Peng, Marcus; Tarui, Nori; Tsuge, Takahiro; Eversole, Dolan “What’s a (better) beach day worth? Economic Valuation of changes in Waikīkī Beach characteristics.” Coastal Management, 51:3, 186-210, 2023.
- Daitoh, Ichiroh; Tarui, Nori “Open Access Renewable Resources, Urban Unemployment, and the Resolution of Dual Institutional Failures,” Environment and Development Economics, 1-17, 2021.
- Ishikawa, Jota; Tarui, Nori “You Can't Always Get What You Want: Protectionist Policies with the Transport Sector,” Economics Letters, 207, 110009, 2021.
- Brucal, Arlan; Tarui, Nori “The Effects of Utility Revenue Decoupling on Electricity Prices,” Energy Economics, 101, 105440, 2021.
- Smith, L.Vanessa; Tarui, Nori; Yamagata, Takashi “Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on global fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions,” Energy Economics, 97, 105170, 2021.
- Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Ishikawa, Jota; Tarui, Nori “What Goes Around Comes Around: ExportEnhancing Effects of Import-Tariff Reductions,” Journal of International Economics, 126, 103362, 2020.
- (See https://nori523.wixsite.com/my-site/research for earlier publications.)
