Publications on Water Resources Management and Planning

EEED conducts extensive research on the topic of water resources management and planning. This page provides a complete, chronological list of our publications. To learn more about our research, please visit our Water Resources Management and Planning program area.

2011

Recommended Research Priorities for the Qatar Foundation's Environment and Energy Research Institute — 2011

The Qatar Foundation is establishing a national research institute to conduct energy, environment, and water research. This book recommends research priorities for the institute and reports on a survey of related research institutions in the region.

2008

Estimating the Value of Water-Use Efficiency in the Intermountain West — 2008

This study presents an economic framework for estimating the avoided costs and environmental benefits of increasing water-use efficiency. The report demonstrates this framework by evaluating the benefits of Denver Water efficiency programs.

Identifying and Reducing Climate-Change Vulnerabilities in Water-Management Plans — 2008

This research brief summarizes work with Southern California's Inland Empire Utilities Agency to help it identify climate-change vulnerabilities in its long-term water plans and evaluate its most effective options for managing those risks.

Preparing for an Uncertain Future Climate in the Inland Empire: Identifying Robust Water-Management Strategies — 2008

This briefing presents an analysis of how different adaptive water-management strategies may reduce Southern California's vulnerability to climate change and other planning uncertainties.

Presenting Uncertainty About Climate Change to Water-Resource Managers: A Summary of Workshops with the Inland Empire Utilities Agency — 2008

RAND researchers are working with water agencies in California to help them better understand how climate change might affect their systems and what actions they may need to take to address this challenge. This report documents the study.

2007

Evaluating the Benefits and Costs of Increased Water-Use Efficiency in Commercial Buildings — 2007

This report presents an analytical framework and describes a spreadsheet-based tool to help commercial building owners make reasoned judgments about various water-efficiency investment options.

A New Analytic Method for Finding Policy-Relevant Scenarios — 2007

Description of a new analytic method, based on robust decisionmaking, that could be applied to water resource management in California and climate change policy questions.

A New Tool Can Help Commercial-Building Owners Make Better Water-Efficiency Decisions — 2007

This fact sheet describes a case study of commercial-building water efficiency and the Building Water Efficiency Analysis Model used to conduct it. The model allows convenient assessment of potential value of water-efficiency investments.

2006

From Flood Control to Integrated Water Resource Management: Lessons for the Gulf Coast from Flooding in Other Places in the Last Sixty Years — 2006

Reports the experiences from four major floods since 1948 to draw lessons for the Gulf coast restoration effort.

Success Matters: Recasting the Relationship Among Geophysical, Biological, and Behavioral Scientists to Support Decision Making on Major Environmental Challenges — 2006

Coping with global change, providing clean water for growing populations, and disposing of nuclear waste are difficult public policy challenges.

2005

Improving Contracting at the City of Los Angeles Airports, Port, and Department of Water and Power — 2005

Presents an analysis of a 90-day study to find ways to make the purchasing, contracting, and leasing activities of the Los Angeles World Airports, the Port of Los Angeles, and the Department of Water and Power more transparent and efficient