Debra Knopman

Adjunct Engineer

Off Site Office

Education

Ph.D. in geography and environmental engineering, Johns Hopkins University; M.S. in civil engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.A. in chemistry, Wellesley College

Media Resources

This researcher is available for interviews.

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Overview

Debra Knopman is an adjunct engineer at the RAND Corporation. She served as vice president and director of RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment, later called Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment, from 2004 to 2014, and then as a principal researcher from 2014 to 2022.

Knopman's expertise is in hydrology, environmental and natural resources policy, systems analysis, and public administration. Her project work spans a range of topics including adaptation of urban regions to a changing climate, long-term water management, capability development planning for the Air Force, policy options for nuclear waste disposal, and organizational design for R&D.

She served for six years (1997–2003) as a member of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board and chaired the board's Site Characterization Panel. She was the director of the Progressive Policy Institute's Center for Innovation and the Environment from 1995 to 2000. From 1993 to 1995, Knopman was the deputy assistant secretary for Water and Science, U.S. Department of the Interior. She had previously been a research hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and later chief of the Branch of Systems Analysis in the USGS's Water Resources Division. From 1979 to 1983, she served first as legislative assistant for energy and environmental issues to Senator Daniel P. Moynihan and then as professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Knopman earned her Ph.D. in geography and environmental engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, her M.S.C.E. from MIT, and her B.A. in chemistry from Wellesley College.

Research Focus

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Co-chair of Board of Trustees, Henry Luce Foundation

Previous Positions

Vice President and Director, RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment (2004-2014); Principal Researcher

Recent Projects

Mid-Atlantic Regional Sciences and Assessments (MARISA) 2.0: Continuity and Expansion of Community-Based Engagement and Support
Implementation Guidance for RAND PAF Resilience Valuation Framework
Federal aviation infrastructure and financing
Decision support for urban responses to climate change and impact on infrastructure planning
Infrastructure policy in the U.S.

Selected Publications

Clancy, Noreen, Melissa L. Finucane, Jordan R. Fischbach, David G. Groves, Debra Knopman, Karishma V. Patel, and Lloyd Dixon, The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Mitigation Grant Program: Incorporating Hazard Risk and Social Equity into Decisionmaking Processes, RAND (RR-A1258), 2022

Miller, Benjamin M., Debra Knopman, Liisa Ecola, Brian Phillips, Moon Kim, Nathaniel Edenfield, Daniel Schwam, and Diogo Prosdocimi, U.S. Airport Infrastructure Funding and Financing: Issues and Policy Options Pursuant to Section 122 of the 2018 Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act, RAND (RR-3175), 2020

Fischbach, Jordan R., Debra Knopman, Heather Smith, Philip Orton, Eric W. Sanderson, Kim Fisher, Nerissa Moray, Adam Friedberg, and Adam Parris, Building Resilience in an Urban Coastal Environment: Integrated, Science-Based Planning in Jamaica Bay, New York, RAND Corporation (RR-2193-RF), 2018

Groves, David G., Debra Knopman, Neil Berg, Craig A. Bond, James Syme, and Robert J. Lempert, , Adapting Land Use and Water Management Plans to a Changing Climate in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, RAND (RR-1932), 2018

Knopman, Debra, Martin Wachs, Benjamin M. Miller, Scott G. Davis, and Katherine Pfrommer, Not Everything Is Broken: The Future of U.S. Transportation and Water Infrastructure Funding and Finance, RAND Corporation (RR-1739-RC), 2017

Knopman, Debra, Robert J. Lempert, Urban Responses to Climate Change: Framework for Decisionmaking and Supporting Indicators, RAND Corporation (RR-1144-MCF), 2016

Groves, D.G., J.R. Fischbach, D. Knopman, D.R. Johnson and K. Giglio, Strengthening Coastal Planning: How Coastal Regions Could Benefit from Louisiana's Planning and Analysis Framework, RAND Corporation (RR-437), 2014

Davis, L.E., D. Knopman, M. Greenberg, L. Miller, and A. Doll., Choosing a New Organization for Management and Disposition of Used Nuclear Fuel and Defense High-level Nuclear Waste, RAND Corporation (MG-1230), 2012

Honors & Awards

Alumnae Achievement Award, Wellesley College (2016)
Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Government Service, 2001, Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association
Luce Scholar, Henry Luce Foundation

Recent Media Appearances

Interviews: Congressional Quarterly; Environment and Energy Daily; Investor's Business Daily; Washington Post

Commentary: BBC; CNN; Fox News Channel; The Hill; Inside Sources; Las Vegas Sun; United Press International; U.S. News & World Report

Commentary

Infrastructure Finance

Progress on Infrastructure, but the Devil May Be in the Details
Negotiations are underway between the White House and Congress about the scope of investment in infrastructure and how to pay for it. But reaching a compromise on spending may not be enough to ensure that the spending will produce results as intended.
May 21, 2021
The Hill
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

The Economic Wallop of COVID-19: Q&A with RAND Experts
As Washington continues to weigh economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, here are insights from RAND experts on how aid money might be best allocated, how this crisis compares to the 2008 recession, what business communities can do right now, and more.
Mar 26, 2020
Drug Policy and Trends

Want to Know If a New Drug Crisis Is Growing? Check the Wastewater
Few people foresaw how quickly fentanyl would displace heroin, doubling or tripling opioid overdose deaths in some pockets of the United States from 2013 to 2017. But we could have been warned—if only we'd checked our wastewater.
Mar 26, 2020
Scientific American
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

The Social Distancing Economy: Q&A with RAND Experts
Congress and the White House are weighing economic policies to help people acutely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Here are insights from RAND experts on what might be effective in terms of fiscal policy, stimulus spending, and emergency relief to affected workers.
Mar 18, 2020
Infrastructure Finance

The Long Game on Infrastructure
The Trump administration recently announced its Legislative Outline for Rebuilding Infrastructure in America. With its lack of new federal funding, the plan may not be the best path to fixing America's most serious regional, national, and long-term problems.
Feb 20, 2018
U.S. News & World Report
Infrastructure Finance

How Federal Policy Could Help Water and Wastewater Utilities
A targeted approach could help the federal government address the root causes of infrastructure problems more effectively than a spending initiative that simply spreads money around with the hope that more spending might do some good.
Jan 16, 2018
Inside Sources
Global Climate Change

When It Comes to Climate, Look for Vulnerabilities in Policy, Not Science
Federal policymakers have picked up on the concept of red teaming — actively seeking out one's own vulnerabilities. While red teaming may not make sense for climate science, it does offer great benefits when weighing climate policy options.
Aug 4, 2017
The Hill
Global Climate Change

The Big Bet: Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement
America's formal withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement could have far-reaching consequences for U.S. global leadership on many issues, not just on efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Jun 2, 2017
Inside Sources
Environmental Regulation

Impact on the Environment from President Trump's First 100 Days
President Trump's actions have not yet resulted in demonstrable change in environmental conditions or funding. But the groundwork is being laid to unwind major regulations and diminish staff at the EPA and other federal agencies with climate-related research in their portfolios.
May 4, 2017
BBC
Global Climate Change

With Trump in the White House, States Could Step Up on Climate Change
The new administration has expressed skepticism about climate change. But states may choose to pursue their own climate change initiatives.
Nov 26, 2016
Fox News Channel
Global Climate Change

COP21: Ambition and Momentum
Negotiators in Paris achieved a historic breakthrough by adopting a fundamentally different, and likely more effective, institutional framework to address climate change. It builds on two concepts missing from past attempts to forge a global treaty: voluntary participation and adaptive policymaking.
Dec 17, 2015
The RAND Blog
Nuclear Energy

Breaking Down Nuclear Waste as a Two-Part Issue
The U.S. Department of Energy is now planning separate repositories for commercial waste and the waste from the military's nuclear weapons production instead of disposing of both in the same repository as originally intended. Decoupling different parts of the nuclear waste problem is a small but positive step forward.
May 5, 2015
Las Vegas Sun
Flooding

Future of Coastal Flooding
President Obama's executive order that directs federal agencies to plan and build for higher flood levels as they construct new projects in flood-prone regions will affect hundreds of billions of dollars of future public works projects. In an ideal world, planners would estimate the benefits and costs for each project, taking into account everything from the details of the local landscape to the potential for adaptive responses over time.
Feb 25, 2015
The Hill
Gun Violence

Firearms and Gun Control: Many Questions, Some Answers
President Obama's task force on gun violence has raised the stakes in the policy debate on gun control and policy in the wake of the recent shootings in Colorado and Connecticut. Some of RAND's top researchers share what is, and what isn't, known about firearms and gun control.
Jan 17, 2013
The RAND Blog
Community Resilience

What Louisiana Can Teach New York and New Jersey
The massive damage and disruption caused by “Super Storm” Sandy has created a rare moment when New York City, New Jersey and surrounding areas are singularly focused on the infrastructure they need in a changing environment – not just the infrastructure they already have thanks to the vision and investments of past generations.
Nov 8, 2012
CNN
UXOs at Closing U.S. Bases
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Aug 1, 2005
United Press International

Publications

Journal Article
City-Heat Equity Adaptation Tool (City-HEAT): Multi-objective Optimization of Environmental Modifications and Human Heat Exposure Reductions for Urban Heat Adaptation Under Uncertainty
Rising global temperatures and the urban heat island effect can amplify heat-related health risks to residents. Cities are considering various heat adaptation actions to improve public health, enhance social equity, and cope with future conditions.
Feb 1, 2023
Tool
Chesapeake Bay Model Inventory and Selection Tool (MIST)
The Model Inventory and Selection Tool (MIST) is an interactive, searchable database of empirical, statistical, and conceptual models relevant to water- and climate-related planning and decisionmaking in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and beyond.
Jan 19, 2023
Tool
Climate Hazard and Mitigation Planning (CHaMP) Tool: Background and Guidance for Users
The Climate Hazard and Mitigation Planning online tool is an interactive website designed to provide users with a single point of access to county-, state- and region-specific historical climate and hazard data and projected climate information.
Nov 2, 2022
Report
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Mitigation Grant Program: Incorporating Hazard Risk and Social Equity into Decisionmaking Processes
The federal Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program can help develop community resilience through mitigation activities that emphasize equity goals alongside reduction of risk to physical assets, as described in this report.
Mar 23, 2022
Report
Developing the Great Lakes National Center of Expertise for Oil Spill Preparedness and Response: An Opportunity to Reduce Risk and Impacts of Future Spills in Freshwater
In 2016, Congress directed the U.S. Coast Guard to establish the Great Lakes National Center of Expertise for Oil Spill Preparedness and Response. This report makes recommendations for the center, its staffing, potential partnerships, and location.
Aug 31, 2021
Report
Proposed Analytical Products for the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability: Developing and Presenting Options for Future Force Design and Capability Development
RAND Project Air Force assisted the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability (AFWIC) in conceptualizing analytical and other products to support concept development, options for future force design, and capability development planning.
Dec 16, 2020
Journal Article
Meeting Climate, Mobility, and Equity Goals in Transportation Planning Under Wide-Ranging Scenarios: A Demonstration of Robust Decision Making
Robust Decision Making offers a promising complement and possibly future alternative to current prediction-based and scenario approaches that could help planners better manage in today's conditions of fast-paced change.
May 21, 2020
Research Brief
Creating a Separate Space Force: Challenges and Opportunities for an Effective, Efficient, Independent Space Service
Taking into account the goals of effectiveness, efficiency, independence, and identity, the RAND Corporation proposed the activities that should transfer to the new Space Force and analyzed how best to sustain career fields in the small service.
Mar 13, 2020
Report
A Separate Space: Creating a Military Service for Space
As the United States creates the Space Force as a service within the Department of the Air Force, RAND assessed which units to bring into the Space Force, analyzed career field sustainability and drew lessons from other defense organizations.
Mar 13, 2020
Journal Article
Climate-Resilient Planning for Urban Stormwater and Wastewater Utilities: Workshop Proceedings
This document summarizes the Climate-Resilient Planning for Urban Stormwater and Wastewater Utilities Workshop, held July 16–17, 2019 at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility in Brooklyn, NY.
Mar 5, 2020
Report
U.S. Airport Infrastructure Funding and Financing: Issues and Policy Options Pursuant to Section 122 of the 2018 Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act
Passenger air travel is at an all-time high, and airports are investing in the infrastructure needed to meet demand. This report contains a comprehensive review of the role of the federal government in airport infrastructure funding and financing.
Jan 14, 2020
Report
U.S. Airport Infrastructure Funding and Financing: Issues and Policy Options Pursuant to Section 122 of the 2018 Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act: Executive Summary
Passenger air travel is at an all-time high, and airports are investing in the infrastructure needed to meet demand. This document summarizes the full report's review of the federal government's role in airport infrastructure funding and financing.
Jan 14, 2020
Report
Air Force Capability Development Planning: Analytical Methods to Support Investment Decisions
RAND Project AIR FORCE examines analytical methods for Air Force capability development planning under conditions of deep uncertainty.
Dec 11, 2019
Report
Valuing Air Force Electric Power Resilience: A Framework for Mission-Level Investment Prioritization
This report addresses the U.S. Air Force's need for a systematic way to value the risk to missions associated with electric power--related disruptions and accordingly set priorities among investments in power resilience.
Jun 3, 2019
Journal Article
Renewing America's Infrastructure: An Agenda for Federal Transportation and Water Policy
This paper addresses policies that promote and deter investment in and maintenance of U.S. transportation and water infrastructure.
Aug 21, 2018
Report
Building Resilience in an Urban Coastal Environment: Integrated, Science-Based Planning in Jamaica Bay, New York
This project considered baywide concepts that could reduce future flood risk exposure in Jamaica Bay while also improving water quality, restoring habitat in and around the bay, and more generally improving resilience to extreme weather events.
Jul 31, 2018
Report
Adapting Land Use and Water Management Plans to a Changing Climate in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida
This report addresses the vulnerability to flooding, saltwater intrusion, and related issues in Southeast Florida and describes a model and decision support tool to help regional planners and decisionmakers better focus on the most vulnerable areas.
Jun 6, 2018
Journal Article
Existing Regulatory Approaches to Reducing Exposures to Chemical- and Product-Based Risk and Their Applicability to Diet-Related Chronic Disease
Exempting dietary health from some form of social support or regulation seems increasingly difficult to justify in light of the scientific evidence of causal links to chronic illness.
May 22, 2018
Research Brief
Fixing U.S. Infrastructure's Ills Requires an Accurate Diagnosis
This brief examines how the federal government can better promote investment in and maintenance of U.S. transportation and water infrastructure.
Dec 5, 2017
Report
Not Everything Is Broken: The Future of U.S. Transportation and Water Infrastructure Funding and Finance
This report identifies policies that promote and deter investment in and maintenance of U.S. transportation and water infrastructure.
Dec 5, 2017
Report
Air Force Installation Energy Assurance: An Assessment Framework
This report presents a framework that mission owners and civil engineers at Air Force installations can use to assess their level of energy assurance.
Nov 6, 2017
Report
Resilience to a Changing Climate in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Progress, Challenges, Information Gaps, and Opportunities
To launch Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (MARISA), this report synthesizes stakeholder views and literature on activities related to resilience and adaptation to a changing climate in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Oct 27, 2017
Report
Landscape Survey to Support Flood Apex National Flood Decision Support Toolbox: Definitions and Existing Tools
This report summarizes the literature on resilience to flood risk, its analysis and measurement, and examples. It also catalogs decision support tools for flood mitigation and makes recommendations for further investigation of the tools.
Sep 7, 2017
Report
Evaluation of the Jinan City Water Ecological Development Implementation Plan and Recommendations for Improvement
RAND evaluated potential effects of uncertain projections of demand and climate change on the ability of the Jinan Municipal Water Resources Bureau to meet its long-term water resources goals for Shandong Province's capital city.
Mar 9, 2017
Research Brief
Exploring America's Role in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink
This brief outlines the Strategic Rethink project and describes research documented in the final volume of the project, focusing on three different strategic orientations to satisfy the greatest number of U.S. interests and objectives.
Jan 18, 2017
Report
Strategic Choices for a Turbulent World: In Pursuit of Security and Opportunity
This report is the last of a series in which RAND explores the elements of a national strategy for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, in this new era of turbulence and uncertainty. Three alternative strategic concepts are presented.
Jan 18, 2017
Report
Urban Responses to Climate Change: Framework for Decisionmaking and Supporting Indicators
This report presents a decisionmaking framework and supporting indicators for urban responses to climate change based on risk governance, emphasizing capacities to transform policies, institutions, financing, and other actions to affect change.
Dec 7, 2016
Report
Scenario Development for the 2015 Quadrennial Energy Review: Assessing Stresses, Opportunities, and Resilience in the Transmission, Storage, and Distribution Systems for Oil and Refined-Oil Products, Electricity, and Natural Gas
RAND researchers developed a framework and metrics for examining vulnerabilities, opportunities, and risks to U.S. energy transmission, storage, and distribution systems through 2030 under a range of uncertainties.
Sep 27, 2016
Journal Article
Computational Modeling of the Jamaica Bay System
For Jamaica Bay, and other coastal areas being studied for resilience capacity, we need not only models that are published and in the public domain, but mechanisms to generate scenarios that address resilience from various perspectives.
2016
Report
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.
Nov 6, 2015
Report
The Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force's Infrastructure Resilience Guidelines: An Initial Assessment of Implementation by Federal Agencies
RAND researchers assessed federal agencies' implementation of the Infrastructure Resilience Guidelines, written by the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force to ensure key principles of resilience when investing appropriated funds.
Dec 9, 2014
Research Brief
Addressing Coastal Vulnerabilities Through Comprehensive Planning: How RAND Supported the Development of Louisiana's Comprehensive Master Plan
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana used a new analytic approach, developed in part by RAND, that incorporates results from predictive models in a decision tool to allow formulation and comparison of alternatives.
Mar 18, 2014
Report
Strengthening Coastal Planning: How Coastal Regions Could Benefit from Louisiana's Planning and Analysis Framework
Report describes RAND contributions to Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan for policymakers in other coastal regions. It highlights the value of a solid technical foundation to support decisionmaking on strategies to protect and restore coastal regions.
Feb 19, 2014
Research Brief
Adapting to a Changing Colorado River: An Interactive Research Brief
Web page summarizing the Colorado River Basin Study, which evaluated the river system's resiliency and compared resource management options.
Nov 5, 2013
Report
Adapting to a Changing Colorado River: Making Future Water Deliveries More Reliable Through Robust Management Strategies
The Colorado River Basin Study evaluated the river system's resiliency and compared resource management options. This report describes RAND's contributions, focusing on methodologies used to identify vulnerabilities and compare portfolios of options.
Nov 5, 2013
Testimony
Written Testimony on S. 1240 – Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2013
Document submitted at the request of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on August 14, 2013 as part of the record for a hearing held on July 30, 2013.
Aug 14, 2013
Research Brief
Taking a Comprehensive Planning Approach to Address Coastal Vulnerabilities
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana used a new analytic approach, developed in part by RAND, that incorporates results from predictive models in a decision tool to allow formulation and comparison of alternatives.
Jan 29, 2013
Report
Choosing a New Organization for Management and Disposition of Commercial and Defense High-Level Radioactive Materials
Describes the steps needed to design a new organization for the management and disposition of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials, with particular focus on the relationship of the organization to the President and Congress.
Jan 11, 2013
Research Brief
Options for an Organization to Manage and Dispose of Radioactive Materials
RAND researchers describe the attributes of potential organizational models and the steps needed to choose the form of a new organization charged with managing and disposing of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials.
Jan 11, 2013
Report
Planning Tool to Support Louisiana's Decisionmaking on Coastal Protection and Restoration: Technical Description
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Planning Tool provided technical analysis for Louisiana's Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast. This document is a technical description of the tool and associated analyses.
Sep 27, 2012
Report
Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel: Strategy Alternatives and Policy Implications
The United States has yet to implement a strategy for managing spent nuclear fuel. This book examines technical and institutional approaches to spent fuel management and highlights policy implications of pursuing alternative strategies.
Nov 5, 2010
Report
Design of the Qatar National Research Fund: An Overview of the Study Approach and Key Recommendations
This report documents the design and business and implementation plans that the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute recommended in 2004 to the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development for its Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).
Feb 12, 2008
Report
Preparing for an Uncertain Future Climate in the Inland Empire: Identifying Robust Water-Management Strategies
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.
Jan 22, 2008
Research Brief
Identifying and Reducing Climate-Change Vulnerabilities in Water-Management Plans
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.
Jan 22, 2008
Report
Presenting Uncertainty About Climate Change to Water-Resource Managers: A Summary of Workshops with the Inland Empire Utilities Agency
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.
Jan 2, 2008
Report
From Flood Control to Integrated Water Resource Management: Lessons for the Gulf Coast from Flooding in Other Places in the Last Sixty Years
Reports the experiences from four major floods since 1948 to draw lessons for the Gulf coast restoration effort.
Oct 18, 2006
Research Brief
Preparing for Future Floods: Analyzing Reconstruction Pathways from Past Floods Can Help
This fact sheet summarizes a study of approaches to reconstruction that followed previous flooding disasters as a way to glean lessons for dealing with the aftermath of Katrina and of future floods.
Oct 18, 2006
Journal Article
Success Matters: Recasting the Relationship Among Geophysical, Biological, and Behavioral Scientists to Support Decision Making on Major Environmental Challenges
Coping with global change, providing clean water for growing populations, and disposing of nuclear waste are difficult public policy challenges.
2006
Research Brief
Transferrring Army Land Containing UXO: Problems and Possible Solutions
The Army asked RAND Arroyo Center to identify and assess obstacles to the transfer of land containing unexploded ordnance (UXO) and then to identify innovative ways to accomplish such transfer.
Nov 25, 2005
Periodical
RAND Review: Vol. 29, No. 3, Fall 2005
Outlines the wisdom of bearing the up-front costs for publicly funded high-quality early childhood intervention programs so that society can reap the plentiful returns over time; also reviews energy security, obesity, and national security issues.
2005
Report
Transferring Army BRAC Lands Containing Unexploded Ordnance: Lessons Learned and Future Options
Identifies and assesses obstacles to disposing of excess Army lands that contain unexploded ordnance, and identifies innovative options for the disposal of these lands.
Dec 16, 2004
Report
Unexploded Ordnance: A Critical Review of Risk Assessment Methods
Evaluates the technical soundness of existing methods for assessing the risks posed by unexploded ordnance at U.S. military installations.
2004
Research Brief
Risky Business: Assessing the Potential Harm from Unexploded Ordnance
This research brief evaluates the adequacy of methodologies developed to assess UXO risk, reviews risk assessment methodologies of other federal agencies, and proposes a strategy for improving the application risk assessment to the UXO problem.
2004
Report
Building Better Homes: Government Strategies for Promoting Innovation in Housing
This study examines the rationale and strategies available to the federal government for promoting and accelerating innovation in housing.
2003
Report
Assessing Natural Gas and Oil Resources: An Example of a New Approach in the Greater Green River Basin
This report presents a new approach to assessing natural gas and oil resources that is intended to help guide strategic land use planning by expanding the scope of these assessments to include economic and environmental considerations.
2003
Testimony
Assessing Natural Gas and Oil Resources
Testimony presented before the U.S. House Committee on Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on June 24, 2003.
2003
Report
Systems of Innovation Within Public and Private Organizations: Case Studies and Options for the EPA: Executive Summary
Systems of Innovation Within Public and Private Organizations: Case Studies and Options for the EPA Executive Summary
2003
Report
Systems of Innovation Within Public and Private Organizations: Case Studies and Options for the EPA: Appendices
Systems of Innovation Within Public and Private Organizations: Case Studies and Options for the EPA Appendices
2003
Report
Systems of Innovation Within Public and Private Organizations: Case Studies and Options for the EPA
Systems of Innovation Within Public and Private Organizations: Case Studies and Options for the EPA
2003
Report
Assessing Gas and Oil Resources in the Intermountain West: Review of Methods and Framework For a New Approach
The authors examine four recent traditional assessments of the nation's potential supply of natural gas and oil resources.
2002
Testimony
Assessing Gas and Oil Resources in the Intermountain West
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Resources of the United States House of Representatives on April 18, 2002.
2002
Report
Lessons for the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure: International Case Study Analysis
Ten in-depth international and regional collaboration case studies were conducted to assess lessons learned for GSDI development and implementation.
2002
Report
A New Approach to Assessing Gas and Oil Resources in the Intermountain West
The authors propose that comprehensive resource assessment focus not on land access restrictions but on determining what resources are recoverable.
2002

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