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Water and Power in West Maui draws our attention to the ways
control of water resources, in West Maui and across Hawai'i, has
been key to the creation and perpetuation of political and economic
power and privilege. This volume, by two leading advocates for
progressive change in Hawai'i, highlights what has been only
touched on by previous volumes on water law or land tenure in the
islands, and with specific attention to the environment, history,
and communities of West Maui. Individually, chapters on physical
and legal infrastructure are invaluable stand-alone guides to key
aspects of water management in the state and this area. For
instance, one chapter covers recent efforts by the state to restore
stream flows, a topic that is otherwise little addressed in
published literature. This volume also dives into the inherent
failures and unsustainability of the state of Hawai'i's management
of groundwater by "sustainable yield," which will have profound
implications for the future of Hawai'i water supplies in a changing
climate. As a whole, with clear explanations of historical
transformation and ongoing bureaucratic practice, the authors
identify liberating paths forward. Rather than another treatise on
how past bad practices set up a beleaguered present, they suggest
how water and power in West Maui and Hawai'i can be better shared
for an enduring prosperity for the diverse people within these
communities. This volume will be of interest to scholars and
historians, and a must-read for practitioners in water management
and control, and contemporary environmental and indigenous
struggles in Hawai'i and the Pacific.
The essays in this book engage with events, projects, and
developments in ways that describe a host of social relationships
and, often, the problems that themselves maintain those social
relations as inherently conflicted ones. By attending to particular
events and structures these chapters unravel some of the dynamics
that animate social changes in West Maui. Each chapter inventories
the concerns, lands, and people who were key to conflicts that
drive ongoing social transformations in West Maui. Social change is
not only the documentation of historical happenings, but the
singular, material confluence of historical factors that drives
futurity. These chapters look at these factors, historically and
now, to create meaningful comments for people in West Maui and for
scholars of cultural studies, history, and sociology. The hope for
this collection is to offer discussion of several concrete changes
that have contributed to the shape of West Maui's social
institutions and communities. The North Beach-West Maui Benefit
Fund has supported a number of book projects focused on West Maui's
communities and histories. This volume was preceded by, among other
publication projects, Tourism Impacts West Maui (2016), Michelle
Anderson's The Storied Places of West Maui: History, Legends, and
Place Names of the Sunset Side of Maui (2015), Sydney Iaukea's
Keka`a: The Making and Saving of North Beach West Maui (2014), Jon
Van Dyke and Maile Osika's Public Access to the Roads and Trails of
West Maui (2012), and a published compilation of Proceedings of the
Charter Commissions of the County of Maui, 1966-2012 (edited by
Lance D. Collins).
West Maui’s long-time residents, tourists, and day workers alike
have spent hours sitting in their cars, frustrated, as they ask the
ubiquitous modern-day question, "why can’t they do something
about this traffic?" Thinking about Traffic in West Maui explores
possibilities for solving this very complex and mundane problem by
compiling thought experiments from experts in planning,
transportation, engineering, community organizing, and law. Each
author addresses a community-originated proposal for a solution to
West Maui’s traffic woes: encouraging more people to use
bicycles, widening roads on an alternate route, tunneling a new
road through the mountains, implementing rideshare carpooling
applications, managing the retreat of coastal roads, and
constructing a ground-level light-rail system from Napili to
Kahului airport. Readers will appreciate the patient attention to
practical details alongside informed-analyses of the economic and
technological landscapes in which they are nested. Thinking about
Traffic in West Maui is singular in its reasoned, interdisciplinary
approach to a practical, place-based problem. The chapters and
findings detail a process that illuminate West Maui traffic as
comprised of a host of interconnected issues-affordable housing,
overtourism, displacement from ahupuaʻa-based traditions, sea
level rise, international migration, international corporate
markets, class inequality, and, most of all, the contours of the
physical environment of West Maui. Maui residents, tourists,
academics, and everyone who has thought seriously about how to
optimize traffic patterns will enjoy the novel, perceptive
approaches taken in each chapter.
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Civil Society in West Maui (Paperback)
Lance D. Collins; Contributions by Will Caron, Lance D. Collins, Ikaika Hussey, Sydney Lehua Iaukea, …
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In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Civil Society in West
Maui pieces together key political controversies that have animated
the social and political life of West Maui. The book is a
recounting of struggles. Working within the long shadow cast by the
plantation system, and against those who now dominate life in West
Maui, the book is concerned with acts of resistance, recovery, and
inspiration. There have been amazing people and social movements
whose stories must be told. Diverted streams have been restored.
Attempts to destroy the landscape have been stopped. Sometimes the
successes are grand, while sometimes they are on a smaller scale
but have had a lasting impact on our society. Sometimes the
struggles fail in the face of overwhelming political and economic
power. The playing field is not level and the less powerful, often
local, people are at a disadvantage. But the struggles continue,
and West Maui is better for it. Taken together, the collection of
essays offers a mosaic of perspectives on civil society in West
Maui. Civil society is complicated and fragmented. There are
tactics and resources that can be shared between people and groups:
a social value can support several movements; a legal precedent can
be used by others who are threatened; a technical
access-to-information rule can improve how much people understand
what is happening in their community. Sometimes social movements
succeed; sometimes they do not. The editor and writers hope the
contribution of Civil Society in West Maui encourages people to
recognize that such political activities have taken place-and that
the struggles for a just society continue.
West Maui has been the site of rapid, drastic changes to landscape,
communities, governance, and economy. This collection addresses the
ways tourism both changed West Maui and how changes brought to West
Maui made a tourist economy viable. Each chapter tells a story of
the ways different communities experienced the transformation of
West Maui from an agrarian area into one dominated by industrial
tourism. While focused on site-specific histories of West Maui,
this volume is of significant interest to tourism studies, regional
and urban planning, and Hawai'i and Hawaiian historians.
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