Geoffrey Kirkwood

Russia, NATO, and Black Sea Security

Russia has long used political, military, economic, informational, and clandestine tools against countries in the Black Sea region. In this report, th...

Assessing the Readiness for Human Commercial Spaceflight Safety Regulations

Charting a Trajectory from Revolutionary to Routine Travel

RAND researchers assessed the progress that the commercial spaceflight industry has made in adopting voluntary safety standards and whether the indust...

Assessing Risk to National Critical Functions as a Result of Climate Change

2023 Risk Assessment Update

Researchers assessed the risk that eight climate hazards will pose to National Critical Functions by 2050 and 2100 under future scenarios following cu...

The Cost of Cost-Effectiveness

Expanding Equity in Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants

Researchers offer ways the Federal Emergency Management Agency could simplify or amend the required benefit-cost analysis process in applications for ...

Developing Metrics and Scoring Procedures to Support Mitigation Grant Program Decisionmaking

To develop metrics that can inform decisionmaking for awarding predisaster mitigation grants, the authors established three lines of effort (LoEs) for...

ASSESSING THE READINESS FOR HUMAN COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT SAFETY REGULATIONS

CHARTING A TRAJECTORY FROM REVOLUTIONARY TO ROUTINE TRAVEL. SUMMARY

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