KAI HOʻOULU LLC
What We Offer
Resource Protection
Advancing positive impacts for ocean, environmental and cultural resources through permitting, regulations and government or private resource management and development.
Indigenous and Cultural Perpetuation
Providing advocacy and legal drafting for indigenous and cultural rights, and for the perpetuation of island, coastal and ocean lifestyles.
Stewardship
Collaborating with communities to develop their stewardship strategies and documents, so that natural and cultural resource protections perpetuate sustainable human uses within living cultures.
Analysis
Analyzing and improving implementation of multi-layered management jurisdictions and stakeholder claims in natural and cultural resource issues.
We can help to:
- Navigate and craft ocean law and policy for indigenous, island and coastal peoples by bridging environmental and multicultural law, science, policy, management and various knowledge types
- Facilitate adaptive community and rights-holder stewardship of ocean and coastal resources impacted by climate change
- Propose applications of natural and cultural resource protections that honor indigenous and ancestral knowledge, after local consultation
- Deliver legal and policy consultation; project planning, management and implementation; analysis of multi-layered jurisdictions and stakeholder claims; written and oral advocacy; and facilitation among various stakeholder groups
- Apply past leadership experiences in highly logistic, long-term, complex projects
* Available to travel for project-based contract work