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How Can Commercial Buildings Become Needed Housing?

Jun 6, 2022

Adaptive reuse has tremendous promise for making a dent in Southern California's housing shortage, but realizing its full potential will require thoughtful and timely policymaking.
Essay

Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities

Jun 27, 2022

Starting in the 1930s, neighborhoods across America were redlined—marked on government maps as too hazardous, as in, too Black or too immigrant, for federal home loans. When zoning officials needed somewhere to put a new factory or freeway, those redlined neighborhoods were like a bullseye that they hit again and again.

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Journal Article

Impact of Telephone Triage on Access to Primary Care for People Living with Multiple Long-Term Health Conditions: Rapid Evaluation

We aimed to evaluate whether or not the increased use of telephone triage would affect access to primary care differently for people living with multimorbidity than for other patients.

Aug 12, 2022
Commentary

Hack Post-Quantum Cryptography Now So That Bad Actors Don't Do It Later

The U.S. government should consider offering a public cash bounty to anyone who can crack the new forms of encryption that are being rolled out to defend against quantum computers. If a bounty helps catch a vulnerability before it's deployed, then the modest cost of the bounty could prevent much higher costs down the line.

Jul 28, 2022
Journal Article

Cyber Deterrence with Imperfect Attribution and Unverifiable Signaling

Examines a game of deterrence in which the defender can signal its retaliatory capability but can only imperfectly attribute an attack. We show that there are equilibria in which the defender sends noisy signals to increase its expected payoff.

Jul 25, 2022
Blog

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.

Jul 22, 2022
Journal Article

Technologies for Primary Screening in Aviation Security

The article examines technologies currently in use and emerging technologies with potential for use in the primary screening of carry-on baggage, checked baggage and air cargo.

Jul 21, 2022
Journal Article

Assessing the Implementation of Digital Innovations in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic to Address Key Public Health Functions: Scoping Review of Academic and Nonacademic Literature

In this study, scoping reviews of academic and nonacademic literature were undertaken to obtain an overview of the evidence regarding digital innovations implemented to address key public health functions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jul 21, 2022
Dissertation

Ovens and Tinderboxes in the Golden State: A Mixed-Methods Exploratory Analysis of Joint Heatwave Power Outage Events

Examines associations between hazards, outages, and health outcomes for California cities from 2008–2020.

Jul 21, 2022
Report

Is Los Angeles County Prepared for California's Edible Food Recovery Mandate?

Experts in food recovery discuss findings from a RAND study into Los Angeles County's preparedness for a new law which requires California to significantly reduce organic waste and recover some edible food from going to landfills by 2025.

Jul 18, 2022
Commentary

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.

Jul 8, 2022
Multimedia

Three Steps to Protect Communities from Climate Change

RAND engineer and information scientist Michelle Miro presents three steps to reduce the risks that climate change poses to communities around the United States.

Jul 7, 2022
Report

Identifying Critical IT Products and Services

Researchers have identified the software and businesses that provide critical information technology products and services and developed a framework to continue this analysis as technology evolves. They assessed both software risk and business risk.

Jul 6, 2022
Report

America's 5G Era: Strengthening Current and Future U.S. Technical Competitiveness in 5G

Fifth-generation telecommunications technology (5G) offers a wide variety of potential applications. Authors discuss the global state of play in several aspects of the 5G ecosystem and raise several issues for policymakers to consider.

Jun 30, 2022
Report

Planning for Significant Cyber Incidents: An Introduction for Decisionmakers

This report describes contingency planning for a significant cyber incident, focusing on the importance of planning, the process of developing a plan, and options for operationalizing it. It summarizes a companion how-to guide by the same authors.

Jun 27, 2022
Report

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.

Jun 24, 2022
Blog

Synthetic Opioids, Ukrainian Grain, the Metaverse: RAND Weekly Recap

This weekly recap focuses on countering the illegal flow of synthetic opioids, freeing up Ukrainian grain to prevent famine, the importance of defining the metaverse, and more.

Jun 24, 2022
Report

How Available and Accessible Are Mental Health Services in NYC?

Across the United States and in New York City in particular, the use of mental health services is low and care is not equitably distributed. Non-Hispanic white individuals are more likely to seek care than non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic individuals. Provider shortages and a lack of integration across service settings are two barriers, and COVID-19 exacerbated these challenges.

Jun 22, 2022
Report

California's Edible Food Recovery Mandate: One Solution for Two Problems

Organic waste in landfills emits 20 percent of California's methane, and about 1.1 million tons of potentially donatable food were discarded in 2018. California's food recovery mandate, Senate Bill 1383, could make an important contribution toward mitigating the climate crisis and food insecurity.

Jun 21, 2022
Multimedia

Preparing for California's Edible Food Recovery Mandate: Findings from the Los Angeles Food Recovery Study

Under a new state law, California must significantly reduce organic waste and recover some edible food from going to landfill by 2025. Is Los Angeles County prepared for the new mandate?

Jun 21, 2022
Report

Guidance on When to Estimate a Future Price Factor: Development of Criteria and Thresholds

A future price forecast can help the Federal Emergency Management Agency and communities seeking its Public Assistance estimate construction costs. Researchers created a framework for determining when such a forecast could be useful.

Jun 20, 2022

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