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An Analysis of Potential Security Options
Terrorist threat at shopping centers is a prominent concern, with over 60 terrorist attacks against shopping centers in 21 countries since 1998. Shopp...
The Changing Role of Information in Warfare
Advances in information technology have led us to rely on easy communication and readily available information--both in our personal lives and in the ...
Prospects and Policy Issues
In the early 1980s, industry and government took a hard look at the economics of extracting oil from vast deposits of shale that lie beneath the weste...
Evaluating Alternatives in an Uncertain World
What are the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act's effects on the market for terrorism insurance? What would be the effect of enhancing provisions for nuclea...
Assessing the Evidence and the Implications for Public Policy
Police officers, firefighters, and other public safety workers face exceptionally high rates of injury and fatality relative to the general workforce....
Implementation, Effectiveness, and Benefit-cost Trade-offs
In 1998, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began developing a standard that would have required all workplaces to establish a s...
Community Views of Safety and Health Risks and Personal Protection Needs
Firefighters, law enforcement officers, and emergency medical service responders play a critical role in protecting people and property in the event o...
Industry Views of Critical Technologies
Over the past century, technology advances have had major impacts on mining practices and the nature of the mine and quarry sites in the United States...
Opportunities and Obstacles
Because license plate reader (LPR) technology is relatively new in the United States, opportunities and obstacles in its use in law enforcement are st...
Strategy Alternatives and Policy Implications
Increasing the fraction of nuclear power in the mix of power-generation technologies is one approach to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. If nuc...
Congress enacted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in 2002, in response to terrorism insurance becoming unavailable or, when offered, extremely ...
An Analysis of Mission Performance
Since the terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001, emergency responders and decisionmakers at all government levels have intensified their effo...
Prestorm Challenges, Hurricane Damage, and Suggested Courses of Action for Recovery
HSOAC presents a summary of hurricane damage to public buildings in Puerto Rico and 12 courses of action to repair damage and modernize public buildin...
This report presents a summary of a December 2001 working conference, sponsored by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Attendin...
Data and Methods Documentation
"The United States relies on a number of infrastructure systems--roads, the electric grid, ports, telecommunications networks, refineries, and the lik...
The Effect of Catastrophe Obligation Guarantees on Federal Disaster-assistance Expenditures in California
"Click to Read Online In an effort to increase the availability and affordability of insurance for catastrophic events, the Catastrophe Obligation Gua...
Interim Results
This documented briefing presents interim findings from a RAND Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy (CTRMP) project that aims to inform the deb...
An Example of a New Approach in the Greater Green River Basin
Natural gas demand in the United States has been increasing for the last 15 years and is projected to grow substantially in the next 20 years....
Review of Methods and Framework for a New Approach
The authors examine four recent traditionalassessments of the nation's potential supply of natural gas and oilresources. They suggest a new methodolog...
Strengthening the Analytic Foundation for Making Air Transportation Security Decisions
Making aviation security more cost-effective is hampered by considerable uncertainty about the terrorist threat, security system performance, and the ...
A Quick Guide
Even people who consider themselves prepared to deal with common emergencies might not know what to do during a chemical, radiological, nuclear, or bi...
There is much the nation must do-and is doing-to guard against and prepare for terrorist attacks. In some possible situations, individuals may have to...
The 1994 Northridge earthquake led to legislation in California-Senate Bill (SB) 1953-which requires upgrades to hospital buildings to enhance resilie...
A Model of the Costs of Utilizing Agricultural Biomass in Cofired Power Plants
U.S. power plants seek to diversify their fuel sources. Biomass energy is a renewable resource, generally with lower life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissio...
This document distills and synthesizes the proceedings of a workshop in which experts in the field of regulatory analysis and terrorism risk examined ...