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Susan A. Resetar

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Susan Resetar (she/her) is a senior operations researcher at RAND, working in the areas of strategic planning, climate and environmental policy, disaster management and recovery, climate change risks to critical infrastructure and national security, natural and cultural resources, and manpower and personnel management. Resetar has worked closely with clients in the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, White House Office Science Technology Policy, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Energy.

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Aug 13, 2024

Back to the Future: A Refresh of Future Scenarios for Project Evergreen Strategic Foresight Activities

This report updates scenarios for the U.S. Coast Guard's strategic foresight effort, Project Evergreen, and summarizes the process for revising them. The scenarios are used in activities that help participants explore potential challenges.
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Jul 30, 2024

Climate Change and Critical Infrastructure: Assessing the Risks and Identifying Mitigation Strategies

As climate change accelerates, the threats it poses to critical infrastructure increases. The RAND Homeland Security Research Division hosted a webinar describing the results of research examining threats to National Critical Functions.
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May 29, 2024

Paratus Futurum Strategic Gaming: Priming the U.S. Coast Guard for the Future

Researchers designed an analytic game for the U.S. Coast Guard's strategic foresight initiative in which players assess future demand for USCG missions and ways the service could execute them.
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Apr 22, 2024

Assessing Risk to National Critical Functions as a Result of Climate Change: 2023 Risk Assessment Update

Researchers assessed the risk that eight climate hazards will pose to National Critical Functions by 2050 and 2100 under future scenarios following current and higher emissions trends.
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Apr 17, 2024

Great Lakes Oil Spill Response Capabilities Evaluation

This report presents an assessment of the ability of government agencies and the private sector to collectively respond to Great Lakes oil spill scenarios relating to Area Contingency Plans while characterizing capabilities and gaps.
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Apr 16, 2024

Mitigating Risk That Climate Change Poses to the National Critical Functions: Strategies for Supply Chains, Insurance Services, Emergency Management, and Public Safety

This report reviews strategies to mitigate the risk that climate changes poses to four National Critical Functions: Maintain Supply Chains, Provide Insurance Services, Prepare for and Manage Emergencies, and Provide Public Safety.
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Mar 27, 2024

Improving Assessments in Emergency Management: Analysis of the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment and the Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

The Federal Emergency Management Agency requires two assessments for participation in certain grant programs. Researchers report their findings from a thorough review of the assessment processes and potential improvements to those processes.
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Dec 12, 2023

Strategies to Mitigate the Risk to the National Critical Functions Generated by Climate Change

This report examines climate adaptation strategies for National Critical Functions at risk of disruption from climate change, focusing on strategies that owner-operators of critical functions might implement.
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Dec 4, 2023

Demographic and Geographic Characteristics of Green Stormwater Infrastructure Investments in Five U.S. Cities: A Machine Learning–Based Analysis

This report presents the results of an exploratory machine learning–based analysis of green stormwater infrastructure asset data across five cities in the United States.
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Dec 4, 2023

Evaluating the Demographic and Geographic Characteristics of Green Stormwater Infrastructure: Findings from a Machine Learning–Based Analysis of Five U.S. Cities

This visual presents the results of an exploratory machine learning–based analysis of green stormwater infrastructure asset data across five cities in the United States.
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Nov 6, 2023

Valuing Army Installation Resilience Investments for Natural Hazards: Exploring the Use of Insurance Methods and Historical Installation Storm Damage

In this report, the authors assess Army installation risks from natural hazards and Army resilience investment processes and recommend ways the Army can reduce associated costs based on an analysis of insurance industry methods and historical installation storm damage.
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Oct 19, 2023

Incorporating Environmental Considerations into Defense Acquisition Practices

RAND researchers assess the knowledge, tools, and capabilities needed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition workforce to infuse environmental considerations into DoD requirements, acquisition, and resource allocation decisionmaking.

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