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Student-Authored Publications on Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure

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Mar 18, 2019

Database of Literature on Disaster Surveys

The Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities presents an overview of a literature review on the impacts of natural and man-made disasters in the United States and a corresponding database with the results from that review.

Amanda F. Edelman, Andrew M. Parker, Melissa L. Finucane
Mar 7, 2019

Decision Support Tool for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Levees Investment Strategy: Documentation and Use

This report describes the decision support tool and underlying methodology used to support the development of a levee investment strategy for the California Delta Stewardship Council.

David G. Groves, Nidhi Kalra, James Syme, Hollie Ellis, Charles L. Gardiner, Lawrence H. Roth
Dec 28, 2018

Estimating Future Water Demand for San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District

Evaluates the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District's Regional Urban Water Management Plan and an alternative approach to calculating future water demand in their service area.

Michelle E. Miro, David G. Groves, David Catt, Benjamin M. Miller
Dec 10, 2018

Energy Efficiency as a Tool for Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing: Evaluation of the Efficiency Emphasis in the MacArthur Foundation's Window of Opportunity Initiative

From 2012 to 2015 the MacArthur Foundation awarded 39 grants and loans totaling $27.5 million to promote the energy efficiency of multifamily affordable rental housing. The initiative had a positive influence on most of its targeted outcomes.

Heather L. Schwartz, Aimee E. Curtright, Cordaye Ogletree, Elizabeth Thornton, Lisa Jonsson
Sep 26, 2018

The Public Health Impacts of Gaza's Water Crisis: Analysis and Policy Options

Gaza suffers a shortage of potable water and a lack of wastewater sanitation. The authors relate Gaza's water problems to its energy challenges, examine the public health implications of the crisis, and recommend steps to avert a regional disaster.

Shira Efron, Jordan R. Fischbach, Ilana Blum, Rouslan I. Karimov, Melinda Moore
Mar 7, 2018

Understanding Scientists' Computational Modeling Decisions About Climate Risk Management Strategies Using Values-Informed Mental Models

This study used values-informed mental models (ViMM) to capture how a set of scientists thinks about modeling CRM strategy tradeoffs and how their values influence this thinking.

Lauren A. Mayer, Kathleen Loa, Bryan Cwik, Nancy Tuana, Klaus Keller, Chad Gonnerman, Andrew M. Parker, Robert J. Lempert
Mar 7, 2018

Participatory Modeling of Climate Change Impacts on Public Health in Long Beach, California: Discussion from a Workshop Hosted by the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition

Participatory modeling, using causal loop diagramming, was employed to identify public health issues; examine connections between climate change and public health; and understand feedback loops among climate change impacts and public health.

Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Gulrez Shah Azhar, Michele Abbott, Robert J. Lempert
Oct 3, 2017

Demonstrating the Applicability of a Robust Decision Making (RDM) to Conservation Decision-Making Under Uncertain Future Climate: Pilot Study Using the Northern Pygmy Salamander (Desmognathus Organi)

This study suggests initial ideas for managing climate uncertainty in conservation planning. Differences with previous RDM applications include focus on finer scale geography and significantly more uncertainty in the system (species response) model.

Abbie Tingstad, Robert J. Lempert, Matthew Moskwik, Dan L. Warren, Camille Parmesan, Linda O. Mearns, Seth McGinnis, Youngbok Ryu
Sep 27, 2017

The Promise of Community Citizen Science

This Perspective examines the transformative potential of community citizen science for communities, science, and decisionmaking.

Ramya Chari, Luke J. Matthews, Marjory S. Blumenthal, Amanda F. Edelman, Therese Marie Jones
Sep 20, 2017

Wanxiang Innovation Energy Fusion City: Recommendations for Developing an Innovation Cluster

RAND authors develop a mission statement and recommend policies to help achieve the Wanxiang Group's vision of developing the Wanxiang Innovation Energy Fusion City into an innovative cluster built around smart and green automotive technologies.

Rafiq Dossani, Marlon Graf, Eugeniu Han
Sep 15, 2017

Mapping Vulnerability to Heat Waves in India

Using district-level data on demographic, social, economic, health, and environmental factors, RAND researchers created the first-ever tool for measuring and mapping India's population's vulnerability to heat waves: the Heat Vulnerability Index.

Gulrez Shah Azhar, Shubhayu Saha, Partha Ganguly, Dileep Mavalankar, Jaime Madrigano
Jun 27, 2017

Informing Pittsburgh's Options to Address Lead in Water

This Perspective reviews the history and recent developments related to the use of lead in Pittsburgh's water system and the costs, regulatory barriers, and feasibility of the policy options for remediation under consideration by decisionmakers.

Linnea Warren May, Jordan R. Fischbach, Michele Abbott

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