Puerto Rico

Alternative and Renewable Energy

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Puerto Rico's Food Security Must Factor in Planning Energy Security
The tragedy of disaster recovery has unlocked substantial capital for Puerto Rico to rewrite its interdependent security in energy and food. Considering food security in this context could help to ensure the population has access to both power and food.
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Feb 24, 2023
The National Interest
Ismael Arciniegas Rueda, Andrew Star, et al.

Cannabis

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Legalizing Cannabis, the Russian Nuclear Threat, Digital Offshoring: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on cannabis legalization, the Russian nuclear threat, the effects of digital offshoring, and more.
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Oct 14, 2022
Hurricanes

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Q&A with the Experts: Puerto Rico
When Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico on September 18, electricity went out across the island. It was a reminder that recovery from 2017's Hurricane Maria is far from complete. RAND researchers discuss the difficulties Puerto Rico is still facing.
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Oct 10, 2022
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 Resilience

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What Can FEMA Learn from the Historic 2017 Hurricane and Wildfire Seasons?
When a hurricane comes ashore or a wildfire ignites, most of a community's vulnerability to disaster is already set. Emergency managers including FEMA, states, and localities could do much more to identify statewide risks and build community resilience before an event makes headlines.
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Feb 3, 2020
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Jason Thomas Barnosky, Patrick S. Roberts @RamblingRoberts, et al.
Emergency Services and Response

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RAND Researchers Visit Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria
A small team of RAND researchers went to Puerto Rico two weeks after the island was struck by Hurricane Maria. They are compiling their observations into a series of studies for the Army, with recommendations to smooth its response to future disasters.
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Dec 19, 2017

Quoted

The Biden administration's lack of a competitive economic strategy, not just in Oceania but throughout the Indo-Pacific, is providing China with unique opportunities to leverage its Belt and Road Initiative to deepen trade, investment, and infrastructure development. Chinese economic overtures tend to be successful, given that Pacific Island countries are overwhelmingly small and impoverished.

Derek Grossman

Senior Defense Analyst

Source: Foreign Policy

While neurodivergent diagnoses are not automatically disqualifying from Army service, any new recruit who reveals a diagnosis jumps through hoops to serve. Some described having to prove that their diagnoses do not impede their ability to serve, which puts the burden on an eighteen-year-old to prove a negative for which the Army has no assessment criteria.

Cortney Weinbaum

Senior Management Scientist

Source: Modern War Institute (West Point)

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico's Food Security Must Factor in Planning Energy Security

Legalizing Cannabis, the Russian Nuclear Threat, Digital Offshoring: RAND Weekly Recap

Q&A with the Experts: Puerto Rico

COVID-19 Disinformation, Biden's Address, Leaving Afghanistan: RAND Weekly Recap

Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico: Q&A with Marielena Lara

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RAND Researchers Visit Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria

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