Valuing Army Installation Resilience Investments for Natural Hazards

Exploring the Use of Insurance Methods and Historical Installation Storm Damage

Beth E. Lachman, R. J. Briggs, Michael T. Wilson, Susan A. Resetar, Jon Niewijk, Philip Song

ResearchPublished Nov 6, 2023

This publication was updated in July 2024 to make corrections to Figure 4.3 and to clarify the mathematical formulas in Chapter 4. These changes did not affect the findings presented in this report.

Army installations experience significant damage and mission impacts from natural hazard events. In this report, the authors assess Army installation vulnerabilities from natural hazards and installation resilience investment processes and recommend ways the Army can reduce associated costs and improve data analytics for resilience investments based on an analysis of insurance industry methods and historical Army installation damage from natural hazards.

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Lachman, Beth E., R. J. Briggs, Michael T. Wilson, Susan A. Resetar, Jon Niewijk, and Philip Song, Valuing Army Installation Resilience Investments for Natural Hazards: Exploring the Use of Insurance Methods and Historical Installation Storm Damage, RAND Corporation, RR-A2382-1, 2023. As of October 3, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2382-1.html
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Lachman, Beth E., R. J. Briggs, Michael T. Wilson, Susan A. Resetar, Jon Niewijk, and Philip Song, Valuing Army Installation Resilience Investments for Natural Hazards: Exploring the Use of Insurance Methods and Historical Installation Storm Damage. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2023. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2382-1.html.
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