Rand Corporation: 374 books
Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future
Near-Term Decisions from a Strategic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book discusses the opportunities and risks the government of Israel faces in shifting to a greater reliance on domestic and imported natural gas. By applying newly developed methods for strategic planning and decisionmaking under deep uncertainty, the analysis seeks to help the Israeli government...
by Kathryn Pitkin Derose, David E. Kanouse, David P. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance...
Confronting Space Debris
Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Orbital space debris represents a growing threat to the operation of man-made systems in space. With the goal of guiding future mitigation or remediation efforts, this monograph examines nine comparable problems that share similarities with orbital debris: acid rain, U.S. commercial airline security,...
Shaping the Next One Hundred Years
New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
A sophisticated reader ought to view with great skepticism the prospect of answering questions about the long-term future. The checkered history of predicting the future-from the famous declarations that humans would never fly to the Limits to Growth study to claims about the "New Economy"-has dissuaded...
Reparable Harm
Assessing and Addressing Disparities Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
The Los Angeles area has the most severe traffic congestion in the United States. Trends in many of the underlying causal factors suggest that congestion will continue to worsen in the coming years, absent significant policy intervention. Excessive traffic congestion detracts from quality of life,...
by Amalia R. Miller, Paul Heaton, David S. Loughran
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Examines how the death of service members affects the subsequent labor market earnings of surviving spouses and the extent to which survivor benefits provided by the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Social Security Administration compensate for lost household earnings....
by Lowell H. Schwartz, Dalia Dassa Kaye, Jeffrey Martini
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Regional artists can play a positive role in shaping public debate and supporting democratic transition in the Middle East. This report explores the challenges artists have faced since the Arab uprisings, U.S. government programs to support arts in the region, and the wide array of nongovernmental activities to engage Arab artists, offering recommendations to improve support for these artists.
Transforming Systems for Parental Depression and Early Childhood Developmental Delays
Findings and Lessons Learned from the Helping Families Raise Healthy Children Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The Helping Families Raise Healthy Children initiative addressed depression among parents of children with early childhood developmental delays, aligning the early intervention and behavioral health systems with a focus on relationship-based care. The initiative focused on identification of at-risk families,...
Hours of Opportunity, Volume 1
Lessons from Five Cities on Building Systems to Improve After-School, Summer School, and Other Out-of-School-Time Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their out-of-school-time systems. The first in this three-volume series describes the cities' early work under the grant and analyzes the conditions...
Hours of Opportunity, Volume 2
The Power of Data to Improve After-School Programs Citywide
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their out-of-school-time systems. The second in this three-volume series describes how Wallace Foundation grantees and three other cities used management...
The Challenge of Domestic Intelligence in a Free Society
A Multidisciplinary Look at the Creation of a U.S. Domestic Counterterrorism Intelligence Agency
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Whether U.S. terrorism-prevention efforts match the threat continues to be central in policy debate. Part of this debate is whether the United States needs a dedicated domestic counterterrorism intelligence agency. This book examines such an agency's possible capability, comparing its potential effectiveness...
A Strategic Planning Approach
Defining Alternative Counterterrorism Strategies as an Illustration
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
While the United States government has historically undertaken strategic reviews and produced numerous strategy documents, these have provided only very general directions for U.S. policymakers. This paper defines an approach to strategic planning and illustrates its application using the example of the critical national security topic of counterterrorism.
by Martin C. Libicki
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Cyberspace, where information--and hence serious value--is stored and manipulated, is a tempting target. An attacker could be a person, group, or state and may disrupt or corrupt the systems from which cyberspace is built. When states are involved, it is tempting to compare fights to warfare, but...
Networks and Netwars
The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2001
Netwar-like cyberwar-describes a new spectrum of conflict that is emerging in the wake of the information revolution. Netwar includes conflicts waged, on the one hand, by terrorists, criminals, gangs, and ethnic extremists; and by civil-society activists (such as cyber activists or WTO protestors)...