Susan A. Resetar

Arts Policy During the Pandemic: What Are We Measuring, and What Can We Know?

Few data sources exist for the labor market for artists. Of the sources that do exist, each measures a different piece of a larger puzzle. Those studying the arts labor market will have to grapple with which data source to use and how “the arts” should be defined before undertaking any analysis.

The Pandemic Is a Disaster for Artists

The arts as we know them are likely to be shut down for the foreseeable future, and the vast majority of artists have likely lost some or all of their income. How many artists are out of work, and what could be done to help them?

Arts and Cultural Workers Are Especially Vulnerable to the Pandemic

Workers in the arts and cultural industries could be especially vulnerable to the economic shocks of COVID-19. As the United States reopens and decides its future, it should recognize these vulnerabilities, as well as the benefits that the arts and cultural industries offer.

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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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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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Climate Adaptation Strategies for National Critical Functions

This tool presents climate adaptation strategies for a set of National Critical Functions (NCFs) that are capable of mitigating the risks posed by climate change.

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Climate and Readiness: Understanding Climate Vulnerability of U.S. Joint Force Readiness

Maintaining and even increasing force readiness in light of changing climate threats is a key part of meeting high-level U.S. strategic goals. In this report, researchers describe a study they conducted to develop links between climate and readiness.

Research Brief

Activities and Results from U.S. Coast Guard Project Evergreen V

This brief summarizes the findings of U.S. Coast Guard Project Evergreen V, part of a long-term strategic planning effort to identify emerging challenges and future trends that might alter demand for missions and the ability to perform them.

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USCG Project Evergreen V: Compilation of Activities and Summary of Results

This report summarizes the findings of Evergreen V, the most recent iteration of an ongoing U.S. Coast Guard initiative aimed at identifying emerging challenges and future trends so that senior leaders can plan for the long term.

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Streamlining Emergency Management: Issues, Impacts, and Options for Improvement

Researchers sought ways to streamline, simplify, and strengthen the U.S. emergency management system, assessing how overlap, duplication, and fragmentation could affect implementation and outcomes. They propose options and discuss trade-offs of each.

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Remote Sensing for Natural Disaster Recovery: Lessons Learned from Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico

We present how remote sensing data was incorporated into the assessment and planning process, focusing on the applications for Puerto Rico's natural resources in the months following the hurricanes.

Commentary

Shaping Coast Guard Culture to Enhance the Future Workforce

This Perspective describes organizational culture, observations made in strategic-foresight workshops, examples of other organizations addressing culture issues, and how the U.S. Coast Guard can use this information in shaping its future workforce.

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Recovery in the U.S. Virgin Islands: Progress, Challenges, and Options for the Future

This report provides analysis to help the U.S. Virgin Islands accelerate recovery from the 2017 hurricanes. It describes goals, accomplishments, challenges, and steps needed to improve recovery capacities, infrastructure, the economy, and services.

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Recovery Planning for Natural Resources and Parks in Puerto Rico: Natural and Cultural Resources Sector Report, Volume I

The 2017 hurricanes harmed Puerto Rico's natural resources. Recommended courses of action, detailed in this report, would restore natural resources, manage solid waste, renew parks, and improve economic opportunities. Damage is characterized.

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Cultural and Historical Resources Recovery Planning in Puerto Rico: Natural and Cultural Resources Sector Report, Volume II

Many of Puerto Rico's cultural resources were devastated in Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The authors discuss their importance, the damage they endured immediately after the storms, and detail recovery actions in Puerto Rico's recovery plan.

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Air Force Manpower Determinants: Options for More-Responsive Processes

The authors examine the process the Air Force uses to determine manpower requirements, compare it with processes used in other services and organizations, and evaluate options for increasing the efficiency of the Air Force process.

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Developing New Future Scenarios for the U.S. Coast Guard's Evergreen Strategic Foresight Program

The U.S. Coast Guard's Evergreen strategic foresight initiative works to identify emerging service challenges that require focus in the near term. This report describes an approach to developing future scenarios to aid in that process.

Commentary

U.S. Coast Guard Workforce 2040: Better Management Through Transparency

This Perspective describes several ways in which the U.S. Coast Guard can effectively recruit and retain its future workforce by providing greater transparency in personnel management practices, inspired by a U.S. Coast Guard Evergreen V workshop.

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Guidebook for Multi-Agency Collaboration for Sustainability and Resilience

This guidebook provides a framework and practical advice for how to establish and sustain multi-agency collaborations that seek to address wide-ranging comprehensive policy objectives.

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Manpower Alternatives to Enhance Total Force Capabilities: Could New Forms of Reserve Service Help Alleviate Military Shortfalls?

Changes in employment stability, family structure, and economic pressures have created challenges for the U.S. military reserve component. Modifying assumptions about Reserve duty can improve recruitment, performance, development, and retention.

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An Initial Look at DoD's Activities Toward Climate Change Resiliency: An Annotated Bibliography

Presents a draft annotated bibliography of select government reports issued within the last five years on how DoD is planning and preparing for the effects of a changing climate.

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Military Installation Public-to-Public Partnerships: Lessons from Past and Current Experiences

This report explores the value in defense installations working with municipalities and other government organizations to create public-to-public partnerships. It also identifies and suggests ways to overcome barriers to cost-effective application.

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Water Management, Partnerships, Rights, and Market Trends: An Overview for Army Installation Managers

This report assesses water management, partnerships, rights, and market trends and opportunities, and how Army installations can potentially use them to improve programs and investments in water and wastewater systems.

Research Brief

The Thin Green Line: Buffering the Nation's Military Bases

This research brief summarizes research on the effectiveness of the DoD Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative in helping military installations develop partnerships to address encroachment with buffering projects on nonmilitary lands.

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The Thin Green Line: An Assessment of DoD's Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative to Buffer Installation Encroachment

This monograph assesses the effectiveness of DoD's Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative in helping military installations develop partnerships to address encroachment with buffering projects on non-military lands.

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Next Generation Environmental Technologies: Benefits and Barriers

Examines the potential of Next Generation Environmental Technologies, which reduce or eliminate the use of hazardous materials in manufacturing processes and products.

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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

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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

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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

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Final Assembly and Checkout Alternatives for the Joint Strike Fighter

Analyzes alternative strategies for final assembly and checkout of the Joint Strike Fighter.

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Implementing Proactive Environmental Management: Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice

Summarize how commercial firms have implemented proactive environmental management in weapon system design, logistics, base management, and environmental cleanup, then draw implications for DoD's environmental management efforts in these areas.

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Integrated Facility Environmental Management Approaches: Lessons from Industry for Department of Defense Facilities

Commercial facilities have discovered that pursuing integrated, facility wide approaches to environmental management is good for the environment and makes good business sense.

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Anticipating Technological Change: Combinatorial Chemistry and the Environment

Anticipating Technological Change: Combinatorial Chemistry and the Environment

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Technology Forces at Work: Profiles of Environmental Research and Development at DuPont, Intel, Monsanto, and Xerox: Executive Summary

Technology Forces at Work: Profiles of Environmental Research and Development at DuPont, Intel, Monsanto, and Xerox

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Forest Monitoring and Remote Sensing: A Survey of Accomplishments and Opportunities for the Future

Forest Monitoring and Remote Sensing: A Survey of Accomplishments and Opportunities for the Future

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Technology Forces at Work: Profiles of Environmental Research and Development at DuPont, Intel, Monsanto, and Xerox

Not too long ago industry almost monolithically viewed environmental considerations as an expense — sometimes as a nuisance. That is beginning to change.

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Environmental Management in Design: Lessons from Volvo and Hewlett-Packard for the Department of Defense

The authors of this report concentrate on two corporations -- Volvo and Hewlett-Packard -- to identify the key factors that led to successful implementation of a design-for-environment program.

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A Conceptual Framework and Preliminary Observations for Assessing Military Aerospace Design and Development Capability

The purpose of this research is to provide a conceptual framework to analyze the future of Air Force Industrial Base R&D Activities.

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Technology for a Sustainable Future — Ideas: A Summary of Workshop Discussions

Presents a summary analysis of stakeholder input gathered from a series of technical workshops and broader policy symposia regarding the development of a National Environmental Technology Strategy.

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A System Description of the Cocaine Trade

This report documents a computer spreadsheet-based 'systems description' for the cocaine trade that is a combination of database and analytical tool.

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Estimating the cost of advanced technology

This paper contains the four presentations that made up the "Estimating the Cost of Advanced Technology" session of the 30th Annual Joint National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America and the Institute of Management Sciences, held Oc...

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Advanced Airframe Structural Materials: A Primer and Cost Estimating Methodology

This report identifies, describes, and quantifies the cost effects of structural materials that are likely to be incorporated into aircraft becoming operational in the 1990s.

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Health Risk from a Coal Tar Disposal Site

This report is part of a series that develops and applies a general methodology for assessing the chronic health risks of toxic pollutant emissions. It applies the general framework and the computer program WTRISK to a study of a coal tar disposal site.

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Health Risks of Toxic Emissions from a Coal-Fired Power Plant

This report is the fifth in a series dealing with the human health risks of toxic substances emitted by coal-fired power plants.

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A Case Study of Beryllium Emissions from a Coal-Fired Power Plant

This Note broadens that case study of selenium emissions to include beryllium discharges from the power plant.

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A Case Study of Selenium Emissions from a Coal-Fired Power Plant

This Note discusses the application of the WTRISK computer program to a case study of selenium emissions from an existing coal-fired power plant in eastern Pennsylvania.

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Improving Automotive Safety: The Role of Industry, the Government, and the Driver

This paper identifies three groups that can improve automotive safety: the automotive industry, by designing into cars such safety devices as seat belts, roll bars, or air bags; the government, by taking such measures as improving road conditions, enforci