2012-05-24T21:26:57Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/water-resources-management.html http://www.rand.org/multimedia/audio/2011/10/25/californias-water-challenges.html Oct 25, 2011 Oct 25, 2011

David Groves discusses an innovative approach to dealing with the many challenges that may contribute to sustainable and affordable solutions of long term water supplies in California.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1106.html Sep 22, 2011 Sep 22, 2011

The Qatar Foundation is establishing a national research institute to conduct and collaborate on applied research in energy, environment, and water issues, the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute. This book recommends research priorities for the new institution and reports on a survey of relevant research institutions in the region.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100170.html Feb 28, 2011 Feb 28, 2011

Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that consumers do respond to changes in marginal price. Doubling marginal price leads to a 12% decrease in water use (500 cubic feet per bill) among high-use households.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000193.html Jun 30, 2010 Jun 30, 2010

This paper describes work helping the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) explicitly develop adaptive policies to respond to climate change and integrating these policies into the organizations' long-range planning processes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR505.html Jan 31, 2008 Jan 31, 2008

<p>Climate change will affect water supplies in California, but few water-management agencies have formally included it in their plans. Robust decisionmaking methods can help identify vulnerabilities related to climate change and evaluate the most effective options for managing those risks. </p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB550.html Jan 22, 2008 Jan 22, 2008

<p>As part of a multiyear study on climate-change decisionmaking under uncertainty, RAND researchers are helping water agencies in California better understand how climate change might affect their systems and what actions they may need to take to address this challenge. This briefing presents an analysis of how different adaptive water-management strategies may reduce the region&rsquo;s vulnerability to climate change and other planning uncertainties.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080721.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>Water managers in Southern California, who grapple with how to address climate change in their near-term and long-term plans, are beginning to seek methods for incorporating such changes in their planning processes.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9294.html Oct 20, 2007 Oct 20, 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1244.html Jul 9, 2007 Jul 9, 2007

<p>Scenarios play a prominent role in policy debates over climate change, but questions continue about how best to use them. A new analytic method, based on robust decisionmaking, can be applied to water resource management in California and climate change policy questions.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD216.html May 24, 2007 May 24, 2007

This paper identifies which interventions succeed most in preserving smallholders' household wealth. The livestock intervention is the most cost-effective one, and the employment guarantee scheme provides substantial asset protection.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP164.html Oct 23, 2006 Oct 23, 2006

<p>Experience shows that communities recover fastest from major floods when all levels of government and the private sector work together to prepare coordinated response plans ahead of time.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD196.html Mar 9, 2006 Mar 9, 2006

<p>Ensuring sufficient, high-quality water supplies for California over the next several decades will be a great challenge for water resource managers. An analytic method called Robust Decision Making may be a valuable tool for long-term water planning.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060328.html Dec 31, 2005 Dec 31, 2005

<p>A potentially rich vein of transdiciplinary research is to integrate the psychology of decision making, known as judgment and decision making, of JDM, with the development of technical information and decision support tools for complex, long-term environmental problems.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR552.html Dec 31, 1997 Dec 31, 1997

This report attempts to improve understanding of the likely effects of water supply reductions on agriculture.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/drafts/DRU1931.html Dec 31, 1997 Dec 31, 1997

Drawing on over 100 interviews with a wide range of people and organizations, this report identifies issues that the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California must address as it reevaluates its role in the Southern California water industry.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR813.html Jan 1, 1996 Jan 1, 1996

This study reports the results of a detailed survey of urban water agencies to provide the background information needed for future studies to determine willingness-to-pay.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR301.html Jan 1, 1993 Jan 1, 1993

In 1991, to mitigate the effects of a five-year drought, the California department of Water Resources bought water from farmers, landlords, and agencies in northern and central California and resold it to urban and agricultural areas.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR251.html Jan 1, 1993 Jan 1, 1993

1987-91 California drought, evaluates existing work on the economic effects of the drought, and presents an agenda for future research to make an overall estimate of the economic costs of the drought in urban areas.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7550.html Dec 31, 1987 Dec 31, 1987

This paper describes the screening of tactics that would change the movement and storage of water in the rivers, canals, ditches, and lakes of the Netherlands. The tactics are primarily designed to alleviate problems caused by shortages of surface wa...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P7155-1.html Dec 31, 1985 Dec 31, 1985

In a large policy analysis study there are generally too many alternative policies to examine in detail. As a result, a step is often included in which those policy options (tactics) that are clearly unattractive are screened out. The output from thi...