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Publications on Climate Resilience

Browse RAND publications on climate resilience.

2020

Mid-Atlantic Regional Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Summer 2020 September 17, 2020

Michelle E. Miro, Krista Romita Grocholski, Jessica Spaccio, Samantha Borisoff, Art Degaetano, Jordan R. Fischbach
This seasonal climate summary draws from a variety of scientific resources for the benefit of policymakers, practitioners, residents, and community leaders in the Mid-Atlantic region, with a focus on the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This edition includes details on summer 2020 weather, regional climate trends, and the upcoming fall 2020 season. An interactive tool shows historic and projected changes in warm daily minimum temperatures.
Emerging Infectious Disease, the Household Built Environment Characteristics, and Urban Planning: Evidence on Avian Influenza in Vietnam September 16, 2020

James H. Spencer, Melissa L. Finucane, Jefferson Fox, Sumeet Saksena, Nargis Sultana
This study examines the relationship between the mix of household-scale water supplies, sanitation systems, and construction materials, and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza among poultry in Vietnam.
California Wildfires: Can Insurance Markets Handle the Risk? September 14, 2020

Lloyd Dixon, Flavia Tsang, Gary Fitts
This brief examines the health of the wildfire insurance market in two areas in northern and southern California and the projected wildfire risk in these areas through 2100.
The Opening of the Transpolar Sea Route: Logistical, Geopolitical, Environmental, and Socioeconomic Impacts September 9, 2020

Mia Moy Bennett, Scott Stephenson, Kang Yang, Michael Bravo, Bert De Jonghe
Climate models project that a seasonal shipping route via the North Pole may open by mid-century. This paper examines estimates of the route's opening, scenarios for its commercial and logistical development, regional geopolitics, and environmental and socioeconomic consequences.
A Complexity Approach for Reducing Disaster Risks for Marginalized Urban Populations: Comparing DRR Interventions Across Four Cities September 3, 2020

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
This chapter conceptualizes cities and their risks as a complex adaptive system and examines the methods for risk reduction.
Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards a New Normal September 3, 2020

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Jonathan S. Blake, Karishma Patel
This chapter introduces some of the key issues facing scholars and practitioners of disaster risk reduction in urban areas, which are now home to over half of the global population.
Climate Finance and Green Bond Evolution: Informing Policy with Machine Learning Text Analytics August 4, 2020

Amber Jaycocks
Explores the evolution of themes associated with climate finance and green bonds to identify opportunities to enhance public-private cooperation and facilitate policymaking.
Mid-Atlantic Regional Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Spring 2020 June 19, 2020

Krista Romita Grocholski, Michelle E. Miro, Jessica Spaccio, Samantha Borisoff, Art Degaetano, Jordan R. Fischbach
This seasonal climate summary draws from a variety of scientific resources for the benefit of policymakers, practitioners, residents, and community leaders in the Mid-Atlantic region, with a focus on the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This edition includes details on spring 2020 weather, regional climate trends, and the upcoming summer 2020 season. An interactive tool shows historic and projected changes in the timing of spring temperatures.
Alternatives for Reducing Army Installation Utility Bills While Enhancing Installation Readiness June 18, 2020

Beth E. Lachman, Ellen M. Pint, Aimee E. Curtright, Cole Sutera
Many Army installations are facing significant and increasing monthly costs in their utility accounts for energy and water services. Researchers identified options for reducing installation utility costs in three main areas: reducing commodity payments; finding alternative funding sources for energy and water system investments; and leveraging nontraditional partnerships, particularly with state and local governments.
A Changing Climate: Exploring the Implications of Climate Change for UK Defence and Security June 16, 2020

Kate Cox, Anna Knack, Martin Robson, Neil Adger, Pauline Paille, Jon Freeman, James Black, Ruth Harris
This study sought to: understand the strategic defence and security implications of climate change on UK MOD activities; develop a conceptual framework to help decision makers map a range of impacts of climate change in relation to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD)'s strategic objectives; and produce recommendations to support the UK MOD in mitigating risks and adapting the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change.
Improving the Air Force Medical Service's Expeditionary Medical Support System: A Simulation Approach: Analysis of Mass-Casualty Combat and Disaster Relief Scenarios June 3, 2020

John A. Hamm
Uses a simulation tool to analyze the Air Force's Expeditionary Medical Support System to see how it performs, what changes can be made, and the specific impacts on overall patient outcomes for different patient streams.
RAND Review: May-June 2020 May 22, 2020

Feature stories explore how military and local governments can work together to prepare their communities for climate change, and the unmet needs of civilians who return from war zones and other hot spots throughout the world.
The Social Structure of Climate Change Research and Practitioner Engagement: Evidence from California May 15, 2020

Zeke Baker, Julia A. Ekstrom, Kelsey D. Meagher, Benjamin Lee Preston, Louise Bedsworth
This study thus examines the perspectives and experiences of researchers regarding practitioner engagement, drawing from an original survey of California's climate research community and supplemental interviews.
Economic Losses from Extreme Weather in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region: Spatially Differential Contributions of Climate Hazard and Socioeconomic Exposure and Vulnerability May 12, 2020

Sujithkumar Surendran Nair, Anthony W. King, Jay Gulledge, Benjamin Lee Preston, Ryan McManamay, Christopher Clark
A novel socio-climate hazard typology (SCT) was developed that integrates locally defined climate hazard and socioeconomic exposure and social vulnerability typologies. We regressed the SCT types and their constituent hazard and socioeconomic components against the cumulative economic loss from extreme weather events in order to attribute economic losses to different interactions among climate hazards, socioeconomic exposure, and vulnerability.
Environment, Geography, and the Future of Warfare: The Changing Global Environment and Its Implications for the U.S. Air Force May 11, 2020

Shira Efron, Kurt Klein, Raphael S. Cohen
This volume of the Future of Warfare series examines some of the most significant environmental and geographic trends that could affect U.S. national security and the future of warfare: rising global temperatures, the opening of the Arctic, sea level rise, extreme weather events, water scarcity, and increasing urbanization.
Building Resilience Together: Military and Local Government Collaboration for Climate Adaptation April 28, 2020

Maria McCollester, Michelle E. Miro, Kristin Van Abel
Contending with and preparing for the effects of climate change is a critical global challenge that will shape the security landscape over the next 20 years. By examining the role of collaboration in military and local government climate resilience planning, the authors find that collaboration improves collective capacity to address climate change, and their analysis provides insight into the attributes of effective joint planning.
Opportunities and Challenges in Using Online Learning to Maintain Continuity of Instruction in K–12 Schools in Emergencies April 16, 2020

Heather L. Schwartz, Faruque Ahmed, Jennifer T. Leschitz, Amra Uzicanin, Lori Uscher-Pines
Explores the use of online instruction in K-12 schools during prolonged school closures and preparedness when it occurs with little warning.
Defining the Solution Space to Accelerate Climate Change Adaptation March 24, 2020

Marjolijn Haasnoot, Robbert Biesbroek, Judy Lawrence, Veruska Muccione, Robert J. Lempert, Bruce Glavovic
Better understanding of the solution space for climate change adaptation, and identifying ways to influence this space, is critical for informing policy making globally to accelerate adaptation action.
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Winter 2019-2020 March 23, 2020

Michelle E. Miro, Krista Romita Grocholski, Samantha Borisoff, Jessica Spaccio, Jordan R. Fischbach, Art Degaetano, Kyle Haak
This web-based tool is part of a quarterly series that draws from a variety of scientific resources to inform Chesapeake Bay Watershed policymakers, practitioners, residents, and community leaders on historical and projected future climate trends. An interactive tool shows projections of percentage change in freeze-thaw days to 2099.
Guidebook for Multi-Agency Collaboration for Sustainability and Resilience March 11, 2020

Susan A. Resetar, Liisa Ecola, Rachel Liang, David M. Adamson, Christopher Forinash, Lilly Shoup, Brynn Leopold, Zachary Zabel Nelson-Nygaard
This guidebook provides a framework and practical advice for how to establish and sustain multi-agency collaborations that seek to address wide-ranging comprehensive policy objectives.
U.S. Army North in the Hurricane Maria Response March 10, 2020

Eric V. Larson, Bryan Boling, Derek Eaton, Suzanne Genc, David Kravitz, Kristin J. Leuschner, Andrew Lewis, Jason Liggett, Lindsey Polley
U.S. Army North led Department of Defense support to civilian disaster-response operations in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017. RAND was asked to answer a series of questions about that support, including about relationships among responding organizations and possible improvements in such things as speed of response and situational awareness.
Quantifying the Relationship Between Streamflow and Climate Change in a Small Basin Under Future Scenarios March 6, 2020

Hui Wang, Scott Stephenson, Shijin Qu
This study focuses on simulating change in streamflow within a small basin under future land use/cover change and climate scenarios by integrating logistic regression-CA-Markov model and the Soil Water Assessment Tool model.
Climate-Resilient Planning for Urban Stormwater and Wastewater Utilities: Workshop Proceedings March 5, 2020

Jordan R. Fischbach, Krista Romita Grocholski, Debra Knopman, Valerie Washington, Alan Cohn, John Brock
This document summarizes the Climate-Resilient Planning for Urban Stormwater and Wastewater Utilities Workshop, held July 16–17, 2019 at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility in Brooklyn, NY.
Applying the Knowledge Product Evaluation (KnoPE) Framework to Two Urban Resilience Cases in the United States February 27, 2020

Kathleen M. Ernst, Benjamin Lee Preston
This paper describes the development and testing of the Knowledge Product Evaluation (KnoPE) framework,which represents a structured approach to evaluating the utility of decision-support tools for urban resilience.
Sustainable Development in International Markets: A Metrics-Based Case Study January 28, 2020

Christopher A. Craig, Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers
This research-based case takes a sustainable development approach by exploring social, environmental, and economic characteristics of a top global economy and an emerging economy.

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