Economics & Impact
A sub-field of economics that addresses the relationship between the economy and the environment
What is Environmental Economics
The World Bank developed this composite indicator to consider the depletion of natural capital in national income accounting.
What is the Genuine Savings Indicator?
$12,186 in 2025
What is the cost of in-state tuition and fees
This U.S. agency regulate the impact of businesses on the environment.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
In 2023-2024 school year, this gender had the most total full-time degree-seeking enrollments at 7,201
Who are women?
These do not reflect social or environmental conditions within a country - they do not incorporate any economics measurements that target the quality of life.
What are Gross National Product (GNP) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
This measures the yearly biocapacity of the planet compared to humanity’s yearly use of natural capital and ecosystem services.
What is the Ecological Footprint?
What are Marketing and Nursing?
This law prohibits activities affecting threatened and endangered species.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
In 2023-2024 school year, this racial/ethnic category had the highest number of degree-seeking enrollments at 4830 (or 33.8%).
Who are Asians/non-Hispanics?
These types of countries have a system that is largely based on a pure market economy.
What are capitalistic countries?
This indicator was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone.
What is the Human Development Index?
14,576 in 2025
What is the undergraduate enrollment
These "rights" are highly litigated and vary quite dramatically across U.S. states.
What are Water Rights?
Who is Finance?
This analysis provides an estimate of the most economically efficient level of pollution reduction that is practical
What is a Cost-benefit analysis?
This monetizes the loss of biodiversity, environmental degradation, depletion of natural resources and accounts for costs caused by climate change.
What is Green GDP?
$34,318 in 2025
What is the Clean Air Act?
Between July , 2022 and June 30, 2023, this discipline had the highest number of degrees conferred at 654
What is Business/Marketing?
These occur when consumption or production of a good or service imposes an unintentional cost upon an unrelated third party.
What are external costs?
Proposed as an alternative to the GDP by Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb in 1989, this alternative to the GDP, this looks at a combination of economic, environmental, and social indicators to create a picture of the overall progress of a country or state
What is the Genuine Progress Indicator?
The best professor on the UH Manoa campus.
Who is Professor Cooney
Permits issued under this law helps ensure the safe treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous wastes.
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act?
At 224 graduates, this discipline had the most graduates in 2023-2024 at UH Manoa.
What is psychology?