Nicholas Burger

Countering Piracy in the Modern Era

Notes from a RAND Workshop to Discuss the Best Approaches for Dealing with Piracy in the 21st Century

In March 2009, the RAND Corporation convened a small group of experts from the U.S. government, allied partner nations, the maritime industry, and aca...

Near-Term Opportunities for Integrating Biomass into the U.S. Electricity Supply

Technical Considerations

Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. One near-term option for using biomass to generate electricity is t...

Evaluating Options for U.S. Greenhouse-Gas Mitigation Using Multiple Criteria

Choosing policy responses to mitigate greenhouse gases (GHGs) is one of the great challenges that the United States faces. It will require balancing c...

The Option of an Oil Tax to Fund Transportation and Infrastructure

This paper discusses using an oil tax to fund U.S. transportation infrastructure. The paper discusses the pros and cons of an oil tax to take the plac...

Outcome Evaluation of U.S. Department of State Support for the Global Methane Initiative

Methane is a short-lived greenhouse gas that is released during the production and transport of coal, natural gas, and oil; the raising of livestock a...

Capacity Building at the Kurdistan Region Statistics Office Through Data Collection

Comprehensive and reliable statistics are crucial for designing economic policies. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq lacks the statistics it needs to impro...

Capacity Building at the Kurdistan Regional Statistics Organization Through Data Collection

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Scenario Development for the 2015 Quadrennial Energy Review

Assessing Stresses, Opportunities, and Resilience in the Transmission, Storage, and Distribution Systems for Oil and Refined-oil Products, Electricity, and Natural Gas

"The purpose of this analysis was to help the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis assess how energy transmission,...

Resilience Dividend Valuation Model

Framework Development and Initial Case Studies

This report describes the development of the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model, a complementary framework designed to help communities estimate the ...

Designing a System for Collecting Policy-Relevant Data for the Kurdistan Region--Iraq

Surveys the availability of reliable policy-relevant data in the Kurdistan Region--Iraq, identifies the high-priority areas for which more data are re...

Mitigating Corruption in Government Security Forces

The Role of Institutions, Incentives, and Personnel Management in Mexico

Mexico has undertaken reforms in recent years to professionalize its police. This report draws on the literature on corruption and personnel incentive...

Valuing Air Force Electric Power Resilience

A Framework for Mission-Level Investment Prioritization

This report addresses the U.S. Air Force's need for a systematic way to value the risk to missions associated with electric power-related disruptions ...

Assessing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Army Security Cooperation

A Framework for Implementation

To help the Army increase the effectiveness of its security cooperation activities, this report examines when Army security cooperation can have the g...