Angela O'Mahony, Ilana Blum, Gabriela Armenta, Nicholas Burger, Joshua Mendelsohn, Michael J McNerney, Steven W Popper, Jefferson P Marquis, Thomas S Szayna
To help the Army increase the effectiveness of its security cooperation activities, this report examines when Army security cooperation can have the greatest impact, and how the Army should assess, monitor, and evaluate security cooperation....Lasīt vairāk
This report describes the development of the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model, a complementary framework designed to help communities estimate the resilience dividend from resilience projects or investment....Lasīt vairāk
RAND researchers developed a framework and metrics for examining vulnerabilities, opportunities, and risks to U.S. energy transmission, storage, and distribution systems through 2030 under a range of uncertainties. ...Lasīt vairāk
Shmuel Abramzon, Nicholas Burger, Peter Glick, Krishna B. Kumar, Cheryl K. Montemayor, Nelly Mejia, Shanthi Nataraj, Francisco Perez-Arce, Claude Messan Setodji
Estimates the gross regional product (GRP) of the Kurdistan RegionIraq in 2012 (excluding natural resources) and describes efforts to set up a system for data collection and analysis to support future annual GRP calculation....Lasīt vairāk
RAND worked closely with the Kurdistan Region Statistics Office to build capacity by preparing, conducting, and analyzing the first round of a survey of the regional labor force....Lasīt vairāk
Federal spending on surface-transportation infrastructure outpaces federal taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. Increasing fuel efficiency means that fuel-purchase expenditures have dropped, so real revenue generated from these taxes has declined. A pe...Lasīt vairāk
The Global Methane Initiative (GMI) is a voluntary international partnership that promotes methane recovery and reuse activities in developing and transition economies. The U.S. Department of State requested an evaluation of the act...Lasīt vairāk
Corruption in the Mexican police forces is widely acknowledged and longstanding. The Mexican government has undertaken police reforms in recent years that have focused on professionalizing the Mexican police. Key components of these reforms have been...Lasīt vairāk
Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. One near-term option for using biomass to generate electricity is to cofire biomass in coal-fired electricity plants. This report focuses on two aspects of biomass use...Lasīt vairāk
This paper discusses using an oil tax to fund U.S. transportation infrastructure, identifies the decisions Congress would need to make in designing such a tax, and outlines some of the likely implications of adopting an oil tax....Lasīt vairāk
This report addresses the conceptual basis, design, and implementation of the National Environmental Performance Track program. The voluntary program sought to encourage facilities to improve their environmental performance and provide a more collabo...Lasīt vairāk
Velásquez, Eduardo A., Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Steven Berg, Inger Sigrun Brodey, Ronna Burger, Nicholas Capaldi, Marc Conner, Matthew B. Crawford, Melissa Matthes...
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This impressive collection of previously unpublished essays examines the relationship between competing conceptions of nature and woman. By looking historically and comprehensively at the problems and questions associated with human thinking abou...Lasīt vairāk
Steven Berg, Denise Schaeffer, Inger Sigrun Brodey, Ronna Burger, Nicholas Capaldi, Marc Conner, Matthew B. Crawford, Melissa Matthes, Domnica Radulescu, Arlene W. Saxonhouse...
This impressive collection of previously unpublished essays examines the relationship between competing conceptions of nature and woman. By looking historically and comprehensively at the problems and questions associated with human thinking abou...Lasīt vairāk