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  Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Has COVID-19 Changed American Attitudes? 2023

  This study explores how personal experiences of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, attitudes about institutions (government and business), and views of social change could either pose challenges or help with planning for the next pandemic.

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  Residential Landslide Insurance in Sitka, Alaska: Market Conditions and Options for Improving Availability 2023

  Following a devastating landslide that struck Sitka, Alaska, in 2015, what little insurance coverage was available for residential properties prior to the slide disappeared. This Perspective includes a characterization of the market for landslide insurance prior to and following the 2015 landslide, as well as a description of four approaches that stakeholders might consider to make landslide coverage more available.

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  Implementation and Outcome Evaluation of LA DOOR: A Proposition 47-Funded Program in Los Angeles: Cohort 2 Final Evaluation Report 2023

  The Los Angeles Diversion, Outreach, and Opportunities for Recovery (LA DOOR) program is designed by the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office (LACA) to provide a comprehensive, health-focused, preventative approach that proactively engages individuals at elevated risk of returning to LACA on a new misdemeanor offense. In this report, the authors document the findings of a process and outcome evaluation of Cohort 2 of the LA DOOR program.

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  Elicitation of Climate Information to Support Water Agency Planning: Report of a Workshop with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission 2023

  Climate models provide one important source of information for adaptation planning, but do not contain all the information available from climate science. Expert elicitation can provide an effective supplement to climate models, as demonstrated at an in-person Climate Information Elicitation Workshop with San Francisco Public Utilities Commission in March 2019 to identify potential climate change impacts on the city's water supply system.

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  What Does Environmental Justice Look Like? Two Case Studies 2023

  The RAND Corporation has partnered with Groundwork USA, a national network of trusts that build more-sustainable and environmentally equitable communities, to show how collaborative community engagement can contribute to environmental justice for residents who have been unfairly affected by neighborhood disinvestment in the communities within Elizabeth, New Jersey, and San Diego, California.

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  From Least Cost to Least Risk: Producing Climate Change Mitigation Plans That Are Resilient to Multiple Risks 2023

  Using electricity system decarbonization as a focus area to highlight the different types of technological solutions, different risks that may be associated with them, and the approaches situated in a decision-making under deep uncertainty paradigm.

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  Planning Tool Methods and Results: Attachment G1 2023

  As part of the 2023 Coastal Master Plan, the Planning Tool was updated to use more detailed modeling data, including a structure-based asset inventory, and to respond to new CPRA planning priorities.

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  Nonstructural Risk Reduction Evaluation Results: Attachment E3 2023

  Nonstructural project results for the 2023 Coastal Master Plan and summarizes the mitigation measures derived from the technical analysis conducted using the Coastal Louisiana Risk Assessment (CLARA) model.

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