Global Climate Change

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Global climate models developed by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict glacial retreat, rises in sea level, and other impacts on human and natural activity, from agriculture to migratory patterns. RAND researchers have studied and are continuing to examine the effects of climate change, particularly how governments and businesses respond to both observed changes and projected scenarios.

Research conducted by: RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment; Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy; Improving Decisions in a Complex and Changing World; Environment, Energy, and Economic Development Program

Research Briefs (3)

Alternative Fossil-Based Transportation Fuels: Economic Benefits and Environmental Concerns — Nov 21, 2008

Alternative fuels derived from oil sands and from coal liquefaction can cost-effectively diversify fuel supplies, but neither type significantly reduces U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions enough to arrest long-term climate change.

Identifying and Reducing Climate-Change Vulnerabilities in Water-Management Plans — Jan 22, 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.

Despite Deep Scientific Uncertainty, Long-Term Problems Can Be Tackled — Jun 22, 2006

This research brief describes an analytical approach developed by RAND to manage scientific uncertainty, which involves the use of computer programs to frame strategies that will work well across a wide range of plausible futures.

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Eileen Hlavka is an assistant policy analyst at RAND and a Ph.D. student at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her career focus is climate change policy, and through her work and Ph.D. studies she strives to learn a variety of mostly quantitative research methods, in the belief that different…

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Constantine Samaras

Constantine Samaras is an engineer at the RAND Corporation. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His research area is the assessment of policy,…

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