Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards a New Normal June 24, 2020
Introduces some of the key issues facing scholars and practitioners of disaster risk reduction in urban areas
Publications on Climate Resilience
Browse RAND publications on climate resilience.
2020
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Mid-Atlantic Regional Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Spring 2020 June 19, 2020
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.
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Alternatives for Reducing Army Installation Utility Bills While Enhancing Installation Readiness June 18, 2020
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.
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A Changing Climate: Exploring the Implications of Climate Change for UK Defence and Security June 16, 2020
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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The Social Structure of Climate Change Research and Practitioner Engagement: Evidence from California May 15, 2020
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.
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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
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.
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Environment, Geography, and the Future of Warfare: The Changing Global Environment and Its Implications for the U.S. Air Force May 11, 2020
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.
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Building Resilience Together: Military and Local Government Collaboration for Climate Adaptation April 28, 2020
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.
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Opportunities and Challenges in Using Online Learning to Maintain Continuity of Instruction in K–12 Schools in Emergencies April 16, 2020
Explores the use of online instruction in K-12 schools during prolonged school closures and preparedness when it occurs with little warning.
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Defining the Solution Space to Accelerate Climate Change Adaptation March 24, 2020
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.
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Chesapeake Bay Watershed Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Winter 2019-2020 March 23, 2020
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.
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Guidebook for Multi-Agency Collaboration for Sustainability and Resilience March 11, 2020
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.
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U.S. Army North in the Hurricane Maria Response March 10, 2020
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.
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Quantifying the Relationship Between Streamflow and Climate Change in a Small Basin Under Future Scenarios March 6, 2020
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.
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Climate-Resilient Planning for Urban Stormwater and Wastewater Utilities: Workshop Proceedings March 5, 2020
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.
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Applying the Knowledge Product Evaluation (KnoPE) Framework to Two Urban Resilience Cases in the United States February 27, 2020
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.
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Sustainable Development in International Markets: A Metrics-Based Case Study January 28, 2020
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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Implementing a New Mobility Vision for Rancho Higuera in a Deeply Uncertain, Fast-Changing World: Results from RAND Corporation Participatory Local Planning Workshops January 3, 2020
Culver City, at the crossroads of key transportation corridors in west Los Angeles, seeks to reimagine mobility, shifting from cars to other transit modes. To help realize its Transit Oriented Development (TOD) vision, Culver City partnered with the RAND Corporation to develop an implementation plan for its Rancho Higuera neighborhood using decision making under deep uncertainty (DMDU) methods embedded in a participatory "shadow" process.
2019
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Indian Summer: Three Essays on Heatwave Vulnerability, Estimation and Adaptation December 23, 2019
Explores how future heatwaves in India may vary over time and geography and estimate the impact they might have on mortality.
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Chesapeake Bay Watershed Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Fall 2019 December 17, 2019
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. Hurricane damage in the Mid-Atlantic and changes in hurricane frequency and intensity are shown in interactive figures.
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Insights into global food system risks and opportunities and their implications for the FSA November 15, 2019
Using horizon scanning, a methodology for gathering information about future trends, RAND Europe identified global food system risks and opportunities, and drew out key implications to 2030 for the UK Food Standards Agency and its Science Council. The study was designed to operate as a test of an approach that the FSA could implement to enable ongoing horizon scanning capabilities in matters affecting food safety and authenticity in the UK.
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Technology and climate change: A review of STFC Food Network+ projects and future potential November 6, 2019
In this Working Paper, the authors review the trends, opportunities, and constraints in the application of emerging technologies to climate-related challenges within the agri-food system. The findings are based on a small sample of projects, but indicate promising avenues for further exploration, as well as potential challenges in the application of technologies developed in one sector to challenges experienced in another.
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Flood Damage Reduction Benefits and Costs in Louisiana's 2017 Coastal Master Plan October 23, 2019
This article builds on the modeling analysis conducted for Louisiana's 2017 Coastal Master Plan. We use the Coastal Louisiana Risk Assessment model to project coastal flood damage over time under different scenarios and with the master plan implemented.