Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa

01/24/2025

Join DURP and the Matsunaga Institute on February 12th for a public presentation of Beyond Collective Action Problems a new book by Atul Pokaharel.

12/21/2023

DURP Faculty Dan Milz received the Best Paper Award at this year's ACSP Annual Meeting in Chicago for his paper on Facilitation. Hear more about Dr. Milz's paper here: https://youtu.be/S4JyJeNaymA?si=eRDwfQY45xhS2Gat

University of Hawaii at Manoa's Dan Milz recently received the coveted Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Paper in the Journal of Planning Education and Research. Read more about Dr. Milz and his esteemed paper, "The Hidden Benefits of Facilitated Dialogue," here: https://www.acsp.org/page/milz2023

08/21/2023

Attention folks shopping for class this week. Here's a course that focuses on community engagement, facilitation, and resilience planning.

12/05/2022

The Pacific Risk Management Ohana (PRiMO) conference is back in 2023. Please join us on April 3-6, 2023 by submitting a proposal. Proposal submission deadline is December 16, 2022.
The 2023 PRiMO Conference is inviting proposals for the following session types:
Full-length Session Types (90 minutes):
Talk Story Session: Session leaders provide an overview of the topic, question, or problem, followed by facilitated discussion (e.g., brainstorming, idea generation, sharing).
Working Session: Focus on developing tangible outputs to specific issues/challenges. This includes, but is not limited to, scenario planning, tool critique, needs assessment, or soliciting feedback on prototypes.
Panel Session: Convene a small group of speakers (2-4) to present on a topic or issue followed by open question and answer with the audience.
For all session types, please plan sufficient time for engagement with participants.
Individual Presentation (15 minutes): Presentation or tool demonstration on a topic relevant to PRiMO and its hui. Conference organizers will group accepted individual presentations into 90-minute sessions or recommend a poster presentation. Presentations on relevant research topics are encouraged.
Academic Posters: Abstracts for papers and posters focused on the thematic areas. Abstracts will be reviewed by a research committee.
Training Session (full or half day): Training and professional development opportunities can be full or half day and will be scheduled for Monday, April 3, 2023, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
See the following website for instructions on proposal submission.

PRiMO - The Pacific Risk Management ‘Ohana (PRiMO) is a coalition of organizations with a role in hazard risk management in the Pacific region.

08/26/2022

Join Dr. Karl Kim. next week and learn about research that identified ten takeaways from the pandemic for
transportation planners. Webinar hosted by Caltrans.
Register Here: https://bit.ly/3R79LdD
Event Flyer: https://bit.ly/3woUQDB

Webinar: Ten Takeaways from the Pandemic for Transportation Planners Wednesday, September 7, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Register Here Discussion & Insights COVID-19 pandemic has created significant chal

08/12/2022

The Seminar on Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (Plan670) is offered in Fall 2022. The Instructor is Dr. Karl Kim.
See the Flyer.

07/22/2022

NDPTC Executive Director, Dr. Karl Kim's recent publication on 10 Takeaways from the Pandemic is available for download and review at:

The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges but also unprecedented opportunities for transportation researchers and practitioners. In this article,...

07/20/2022

A paper authored by Professor Karl Kim, Jason Chun and Eric Yamash*ta on the recovery from the 2018 flooding and landslides on Kauai was just published in Transportation Research Record:

This study describes and analyzes the recovery of transportation systems damaged by flooding and landslides in 2018 on the island of Kaua’i, Hawai’i. Following ...

07/15/2022

Ten Takeaways from the Pandemic for Transportation Planners
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Time: 11am-12pm PST / 8am-9am HST
Presented by: Dr. Karl Kim | Moderated by Tyler Monson

07/08/2022

Elsevier announces a significant increase in the Citescore metrics for the journal, TRIP (Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives). The founding editor is NDPTC Executive Director, Professor Karl Kim of the University of Hawaii.

07/01/2022

Read the latest article published by Dr. Suwan Shen, and Dr. Karl Kim from . Challenges to maintaining disaster relief supply chains in island communities: disaster preparedness and response in Honolulu, Hawai’i

Due to global warming and rising sea levels, Honolulu, Hawai’i—a city on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean—is becoming more vulnerable to climate disasters. This article utilizes a mixed-method approach to investigate the challenges of maintaining disaster relief supply chains in the face o...

06/21/2022

Hawaii's Chapter of the American Planning Association provides highlights from the University of Hawai‘i’s Participation in the United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
https://hawaii.planning.org/about-apa-hawaii/news/highlights-university-hawaiis-participation-united-nations-global-platform-disaster-risk-reduction/