RAND energy and environmental analyses help contextualize the effects of existing and proposed energy policies on the environment. Building on a long history of policy research, RAND helps balance the need for environmental protections and economic development.
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An addendum to the third volume in a series of reports describing the methodology and results of a joint research venture between RAND and the Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat. The Addendum assumes that the reader is acquainted with Vol. III.
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Soviet energy balances
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Examines the relative costs of four possible means of producing electrical energy-- (LWR), (LMFBR), the fusion hybrid reactor, and the accelerator-driven reactor coupled with thermal converter reactors.
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Current regulation of wholesale and retail natural gas encourages overconsumption of gas and discourages desirable entry of solar heaters, heat pumps, and other "new" residential and commercial energy technologies.
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Provides a summary of a series of research reports examining ways to improve efficiency of water use in California.
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This report, commissioned by the California State Assembly, reviews the operations and legal basis for water rights allocation within the State of California, with particular emphasis on the incentives arising within that structure to use water efficiently.
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This report reviews the current status of groundwater use and management throughout the state and shows that water system efficiency can be increased by improved management of the groundwater system.
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Examines the evolution of groundwater management in Southern California and discusses how to improve the efficiency of water use.
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Develops an economic model for groundwater extraction by producers sharing a common aquifer.
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Presents a variety of policy suggestions designed to improve the efficiency of water use in California.
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Identifies past and current goals and objectives of the water planning programs of California's Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
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Describes the problems in combining databases and documents the data involved in empirical testing of electricity demand model in R-1899.
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Diffusion of nuclear weapons and nuclear wastes as byproducts of nuclear-electric power impose intergenerational costs. However, constraints and improvements may also have intergenerational impacts, through depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuel and u...
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Comments on the possibility of decoupling decisions on the licensing of nuclear power plants from decisions on nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities. The author suggests that amended legislation should make it feasible to license new nuclear power pla...
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Very large airplanes using alternative fuels are examined in the context of existing and possible future U.S. Air Force missions.
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A comprehensive analysis of the interrelationships between price controls, oil production technology, product demand, tariff policy, and world trade, as applied to the petroleum industry.
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Chronicles the regulatory history of the commercial power reactor from 1954 through 1974.
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Between 1946 and 1963, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) managed nuclear reactor research and development and, beginning in 1955, conducted the Power Reactor Demonstration Program.
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The first volume in a series of reports describing the methodology and results of a joint research venture between RAND and the Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat.
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Electric Utility Decisionmaking and the Nuclear Option.
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