Student-Authored Publications on Energy, Environment, and Infrastructure

Apr 4, 2017

Heat Wave Vulnerability Mapping for India

Indexing relative variation in heat-related vulnerability across all of India can help planners, policy makers, and disaster mitigation experts target climate adaptation efforts.

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

Mar 22, 2017

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Wages, Employment, and STEM Education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia: Report No. 2 (2017)

This report focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing-related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education indicators in twenty-seven counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Kyle Siler-Evans, Gerald P. Hunter, Nicholas Broten

Jul 12, 2016

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Characterizing National Exposures to Infrastructure from Natural Disasters: Data and Methods Documentation

This report serves as the technical documentation and reference document for the data, methods, and analytic approach used in the analysis of national exposures to infrastructure from natural disasters.

Anu Narayanan, Henry H. Willis, Jordan R. Fischbach, Drake Warren, Edmundo Molina-Perez, Chuck Story, Kathleen Loa, Lauren Kendrick, Paul Sorensen, Tom LaTourrette

Jul 12, 2016

Current and Future Exposure of Infrastructure in the United States to Natural Hazards

This report describes insights about exposures from natural hazards now and in the future, as well as gaps in data that, if filled, could improve the nation's ability to assess infrastructure risk and improve infrastructure resilience.

Henry H. Willis, Anu Narayanan, Jordan R. Fischbach, Edmundo Molina-Perez, Chuck Story, Kathleen Loa, Lauren Kendrick

Jun 1, 2016

Technological Lessons from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Accident

This study analyzes technological successes and identifies capability gaps regarding technological countermeasures to radioactive contamination caused by the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant accident.

Cynthia Dion-Schwarz, Sarah Evans, Edward Geist, Scott W. Harold, Vernon Ray Koym, Scott Savitz, Lloyd Thrall

Apr 18, 2016

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Policy Options for Better Service Outcomes from the Future Electric Grid: A Stakeholder Symposium

This symposium's goal was to identify important policy questions related to the present and future electric power grid system. This convening aimed to identify problem areas that could benefit from stakeholder-driven objective research.

Aimee E. Curtright, Christopher Guo, Anu Narayanan, Jacqueline Du Bois, Kathleen Loa

Nov 6, 2015

Quality of Life Indicators and Policy Strategies to Advance Sustainability in the Pearl River Delta

Proposes a system of quality of life indicators and identifies policy options to improve quality of life in the Pearl River Delta, a region of Guangdong Province in southeastern China.

Debra Knopman, Johanna Zmud, Liisa Ecola, Zhimin Mao, Keith Crane

Sep 9, 2015

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Managing Water Quality in the Face of Uncertainty: A Robust Decision Making Demonstration for EPA's National Water Program

Climate change may affect water quality implementation plans, but uncertainty complicates any appropriate response. This study explores how Robust Decision Making (RDM) can help make water quality plans more resilient to climate and other changes.

Jordan R. Fischbach, Robert J. Lempert, Edmundo Molina-Perez, Abdul Ahad Tariq, Melissa L. Finucane, Frauke Hoss

Jun 30, 2015

The Future of Mobility: Scenarios for China in 2030

Researchers developed two scenarios to envision the future of mobility in China in 2030. Economic growth, the presence of constraints on vehicle ownership and driving, and environmental conditions differentiate the scenarios.

Liisa Ecola, Johanna Zmud, Kun Gu, Peter Phleps, Irene Feige

Apr 24, 2015

Measuring the Resilience of Energy Distribution Systems

Researchers develop a framework for measuring the resilience of energy distribution systems and summarize the state of metrics for resilience of the electric power, refined oil, and natural gas distribution systems.

Henry H. Willis, Kathleen Loa

Apr 23, 2015

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Integrating Operational Energy Implications into System-Level Combat Effects Modeling: Assessing the Combat Effectiveness and Fuel Use of ABCT 2020 and Current ABCT

The authors developed and applied a methodology that leveraged detailed combat effectiveness models to account for the operational energy needs of an Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) 2020 and the current ABCT conducting combat missions.

Endy M. Daehner, John Matsumura, Thomas J. Herbert, Jeremy Kurz, Keith Walters

Jan 28, 2015

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Developing Robust Strategies for Climate Change and Other Risks: A Water Utility Framework

RAND researchers and collaborators present a comprehensive approach for water utilities to assess climate risks to their systems and evaluate adaptation strategies.

David G. Groves, Jordan R. Fischbach, Nidhi Kalra, Edmundo Molina-Perez, David Yates, David Purkey, Amanda Fencl, Vishal K. Mehta, Ben Wright, Grantley Pyke