Sonia Juvik
Position:
- Professor
Qualifications
- BA, Geography - McGill University
- MA, Geography (Bio-Geography) - University of Hawaii at Manoa
- PhD, Geography (Environmental Policy) - Australian National University
Contact
- Phone: (808) 974-7300
- Email: juvik@hawaii.edu
- Room Location: K-261
- Fax: (808) 974-7690
Research
Sonia Juvik's research interests are the social and political processes influencing land use, planning, and resource use
decisions including the role of influential individuals and citizen groups in the regions of the Hawaii, Australia, and the Pacific
Islands.
List of Research Projects:
- Citizen Zoning and voluntary user areas in Hilo Bay and bay-front areas along with their cultural, environmental, and economic impacts
- Planning History of Hawaii: A Planning Director's Perspective
- Kalaupapa landscape through the eyes of the Hansen's disease patient residents
- Changing economic landscape of Hawaii small towns
Publications:
- 2008 Kalaupapa 2002-2005, A Summary Report of the Kalaupapa Ethnographic Project, published by the
National Park Service, 122p (with C. Langlas and K. McGuire)
- 2007 Kalaupapa Landscape: An Ethnographic Study. Prepared for U.S. National Park Service.
(refereed) submitted to University of Hawaii Press for consideration.
- 2007 "Ethnographic methods for community-based ethno-biodiversity research." Chapter 9, in D. Mueller Dumbois (ed.)
Manual for Pacific Islands Biodiversity Transect Studies. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press (With W.R.
McClatchy and W R. Thaman)
- 2000 Student Atlas of Hawai`i. Honolulu, Bess Press. (with Juvik, J.O. and T.R. Paradise)
- 1998 Atlas of Hawaii, 3rd edition. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (With J.O. Juvik and T. R. Paradise.