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Disaster Recovery Operations

Russia

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Putin's Latest Threats, U.S. Policy in the Middle East, Disaster Recovery: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on Russia's troop mobilization and the ongoing war in Ukraine, U.S. policy in the Middle East, building a more diverse teacher workforce, and more.
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Sep 23, 2022

Emergency Preparedness

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The Disaster Bills Coming Due
The United States largely waits for a disaster to strike and then spends billions to repair damages. Investing in resilience today can significantly reduce the costs to recover after a disaster strikes.
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Sep 20, 2022
Jessie Riposo, Shelly Culbertson @SC_Culbertson
Employment and Unemployment

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U.S. Labor Market, 988 Hotline, Firearm Homicides: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the U.S. economy’s uneven pandemic recovery, a new national mental health hotline, firearm homicides, and more.
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Jul 22, 2022
Disaster Recovery Operations

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Rebuilding Ukraine for a Changing Climate
When the war in Ukraine ends, the country will in all likelihood undergo a massive reconstruction. Ukraine could rebuild in a way that would both lower its carbon footprint and construct infrastructure resilient to the effects of climate change.
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Jul 8, 2022
Mark Stalczynski, Ismael Arciniegas Rueda, et al.
Citizen Science

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Citizen Science Helps Communities Participate in, Understand, and Trust Science
Good citizen science brings a community together and helps it prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. A RAND guide takes non-expert investigators from the early stages of defining their questions and setting their goals, through building their teams, to planning for action.
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Jan 4, 2022
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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RAND Commentary Highlights of 2021
Vaccine rollouts, an attack on the U.S. Capitol, massive ransomware attacks, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, record numbers of job openings and people quitting, and more. RAND researchers weighed in on all these topics and more.
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Dec 21, 2021
Emergency Preparedness

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Hurricane Ida Is Part of a Cycle of Disasters—Mitigating Their Impact Means Building Back Better
Building back better means focusing on recovery that not only restores damage from a disaster but also reduces future risk. To meet that goal today, we need to look at the ways our disaster preparedness and response systems actually create risk themselves, by reinforcing things like wealth inequality, systemic discrimination, or access to crucial services.
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Sep 13, 2021
Jay Balagna, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg @aclarkginsberg
Disaster Recovery Operations

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Four Strategies to Reduce Disaster Risk in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts
Addressing the circumstances for the more than two billion people living in fragile and conflict-affected contexts is crucial for delivering on the United Nations commitment for disaster risk reduction. Four strategies can help reduce risk and improve resilience for these communities.
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Jul 9, 2021
Aaron Clark-Ginsberg @aclarkginsberg, Ronak B. Patel, et al.
Critical Infrastructure Protection

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New Thinking to Translate Infrastructure Dollars into Resilience
Infrastructure investments the United States makes today to recover from the pandemic can help boost resilience for the future. We will need to think beyond what we've done in the past to ensure that these investments can continue to protect the nation from shifting threats in the future.
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Jun 2, 2021
Benjamin Lee Preston @bl_preston, Michelle E. Miro, et al.
Information Operations

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COVID-19 Disinformation, Biden's Address, Leaving Afghanistan: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on Russian and Chinese campaigns to spread malign and subversive information on COVID-19, President Biden's address to Congress, the planned U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and more.
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Apr 30, 2021
Disaster Recovery Operations

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Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico: Q&A with Marielena Lara
When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, it peeled roofs from houses, turned roads into rivers, and left millions of people without electricity or safe drinking water. Marielena Lara, a senior physician policy researcher at RAND, was grateful to be part of the recovery planning.
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Apr 26, 2021
Community-Based Participatory Research

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Local Communities Need a Voice in How to 'Build Back Better'
Long before it was popularized and made its way into political slogans and economic recovery battle cries, the phrase “building back better” was a central tenet of disaster recovery and community resilience. How should community voices be incorporated into “building back better” processes?
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Jan 12, 2021
Max Izenberg, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg @aclarkginsberg
Disaster Recovery Operations

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Previous Disasters Provide Important Lessons for Central America's Recovery from Hurricanes
As the global community works to assist Central America in recovering from the disastrous 2020 hurricane season, other recent recovery efforts offer helpful lessons, both for the governments of the region as well as outsiders providing resources and support.
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Jan 11, 2021
Shelly Culbertson @SC_Culbertson, Ismael Arciniegas Rueda, et al.
Machine Learning

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Are Important Tools to Improve Cost Estimation for Natural Disasters in Electric Utilities
Natural disasters in the United States cause billions of dollars of damage to electric infrastructure every year. Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning in a disaster-recovery context for electrical utilities might significantly improve cost estimating capability and responsiveness.
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Dec 4, 2020
Ismael Arciniegas Rueda, Parousia Rockstroh
Gender Equity in the Workplace

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Working Women, the Intelligence Community, Syrian Refugees: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on supporting America's working women, challenges facing the next Director of National Intelligence, how Syria's forever war is creating forever refugees, and more.
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Dec 4, 2020
Natural Hazards

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Disaster Reporting and Its Impacts on Policy and Inequities
Disaster news tropes may capture audience attention, but they ultimately frustrate progress in mitigating the short- and long-term effects of disasters on communities. It's more important than ever that news stories about disasters frame the effects of environmental phenomena in meaningful ways.
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Nov 16, 2020
Aaron Clark-Ginsberg @aclarkginsberg, Shearon Roberts

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