Water Resources Planning
RAND CRC works directly with water planners from utilities and agencies across the United States and internationally to help them address climate change and other long-term challenges in their planning.
RAND Climate Resilience Center
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The RAND Climate Resilience Center, or RAND CRC, addresses one of the most significant policy challenges of our time: changing how we plan, build, and sustain our societal and physical systems to become more resilient to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. This growing need is especially relevant for water resources management, including freshwater supply, water quality assurance, flood risk management, agricultural and industrial use, and coastal and urban water planning.
RAND's CRC conducts policy research and develops innovative tools to support decisionmakers at all levels of government, as well as diverse stakeholders from the private and philanthropic sectors, as they confront challenges presented by climate change. RAND is uniquely suited to bring together cross-disciplinary research teams to identify emerging climate resilience challenges, apply state-of-the-art methods to tackle problems from multiple perspectives and address uncertainty that is often ignored, and recommend solutions that are effective and enduring.
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RAND has a long history of conducting research on policy and planning challenges related to water and global climate change. RAND's growing body of work focuses on the following topics:
