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Pardee RAND Dissertations using Pardee Center Methods

Many Pardee RAND Graduate School students have used robust decision making and decision making under deep uncertainty in their dissertations.

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Oct 30, 2013

Monopoly and Micro-Irrigation in Smallholder Water Markets: Using Exploratory Modeling to Consider Interactions between Market Structure and Agriculture Technology Subsidies

Explores the changes water market participants may experience should there be a move to formalize water markets and establish tradable water rights.

Benjamin P. Bryant
Oct 21, 2013

Comparing Homeland Security Risks Using a Deliberative Risk Ranking Methodology

Presents individuals' relative concerns about homeland security hazards and the attributes which influence those concerns.

Russell Lundberg
Jan 20, 2012

Reconsidering California Transport Policies: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in an Uncertain Future

Applies robust decision methods to evaluate California's transportation policies that considers multiple views of the future, and identifies strategies that consistently reduce emissions at acceptable costs regardless of future conditions.

Ryan Keefe
Apr 20, 2010

Managing New Orleans Flood Risk in an Uncertain Future Using Non-Structural Risk Mitigation

Considers proposals to augment the existing flood-damage protection system in New Orleans with ''nonstructural'' risk mitigation programs focused on single-family homes.

Jordan R. Fischbach
Oct 13, 2008

Improving Cost-Effectiveness and Mitigating Risks of Renewable Energy Requirements

Assesses the social welfare implications of a policy of requiring 25% of electricity and motor vehicle transportation fuels supplied to U.S. consumers to come from renewable energy sources, such as wind power and ethanol, by 2025.

James Griffin
Aug 14, 2007

From the Outside In: Shaping the International Criminal Court

Assess current U.S. policy regarding the International Criminal Court and discusses the effectiveness of other, perhaps more robust, policies.

Brian Rosen
Feb 27, 2007

Robust Decisions and Deep Uncertainty: An Application of Real Options to Public and Private Investment in Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies

Assesses the prospects for private-sector investment in hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

Sergej Mahnovski
May 10, 2006

Exploratory Modeling and Adaptive Strategies for Investment in Standard Services to Facilitate Public Service Networks

Compares several strategies for delivering common services and finds that complementary modular services improve social welfare by eliminating redundancies and expanding the customer base.

Sungho Lee
Jan 30, 2006

New Methods for Identifying Robust Long-Term Water Resources Management Strategies for California

Describes an analytic methodology for decisionmaking under uncertainty and applies it to long-term water planning in California.

David G. Groves
Nov 9, 2005

Zeroing In: A Capabilities-based Alternative to Precision Guided Munitions Planning

Uses the methodologies of exploratory modeling and robust planning to create a capabilities-based framework for the analysis of purchasing decisions for precision guided munitions.

Sam Loeb
Sep 12, 2005

Astronomical Odds: A Policy Framework for the Cosmic Impact Hazard

Addresses the threat to the Earth posed by asteroids and comets as an extreme example of a low-probability, high-consequence policy problem.

Geoffrey Sommer
Jan 1, 2000

Social Capital, Technology Diffusion and Sustainable Growth in the Developing World

The author develops an agent-based macro-econometric model for the developing world that endogenizes the process of technology diffusion by formalizing the role of social interactions.

David Robalino

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Dissertations by Non-PRGS Students

Exploratory Modeling and analysis: A promising method to deal with deep uncertainty 2008

Delft University of Technology