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May 2, 2024
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Aug 30, 2023
This Perspective presents key information needs for stormwater practitioners in the Mid-Atlantic region and provides recommendations that would support more effective stormwater planning, design, and management in the face of climate change.
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Duration 5:10
RAND researchers discuss recommendations for more effective stormwater planning, design, and management in the Mid-Atlantic region in the face of climate change.
Research
Jul 19, 2023
This report examines properties with multiple losses insured by the National Flood Insurance Program and the communities in which they are located to help inform decisionmaking relevant to floodplain management, flood insurance, and mitigation.
May 8, 2023
This report describes options for Department of Homeland Security officials to improve protective action flood guidance and messaging in response to growing flood risks that continue to cause adverse effects and threaten lives and property.
Apr 4, 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.
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.
Jan 25, 2023
This study examines the factors predicting willingness to move among residents of southeast Louisiana.
Oct 20, 2022
This brochure describes RAND's work, which directly supports decisionmakers in developing actionable planning and policy for disaster management and resilience.
Apr 13, 2022
Duration 2:59
An overview of testimony by Robert J. Lempert presented before the Minnesota House of Representatives Committee on Climate and Energy Finance and Policy on March 10, 2022.
Jan 21, 2022
Mapping global floodplain exposure and dependence.
Nov 16, 2021
Social media systems were incredibly active during disasters. Traditional sources such as the initial FEMA damage estimates can miss areas of heavy impact. This study provides a novel use case in crisis informatics.
Research Summary
Sep 16, 2021
Some Department of the Air Force installations face high levels of exposure to flooding, wildfires, or high winds. Twenty installations have areas with high or very high wildfire potential.
