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Mar 14, 2016
Documentation for the 2009-2010 Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey (DNORS), a study of individuals and families who resided in New Orleans, Louisiana, prior to Hurricane Katrina. DNORS assessed medium-term outcomes five years after the hurricane.
Research
Mar 1, 2016
RAND helped Louisiana develop an application to the Natural Disaster Resilience Competition. RAND performed a quantitative analysis of flood risk reduction under different amounts of flood mitigation investment in three Louisiana parishes.
Sep 15, 2015
The Partnerships for Recovery Across The Sectors (PRACTIS) toolkit employs a survey, a quality improvement guide, and a recovery exercise to strengthen disaster recovery partnerships between local health departments and community-based organizations.
Sep 8, 2015
Hurricane Katrina left a path of destruction, death, and suffering in its wake. Its recovery, halting and incomplete as it has been, has taught us valuable lessons about resiliency.
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Aug 27, 2015
This weekend marks 10 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. As the region struggled to cope and rebuild after the storm, RAND experts worked on solutions to the region's long-term challenges.
Dec 9, 2014
RAND researchers assessed federal agencies' implementation of the Infrastructure Resilience Guidelines, written by the Presidential Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force to ensure key principles of resilience when investing appropriated funds.
Research Summary
Mar 18, 2014
The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana used a new analytic approach, developed in part by RAND, that incorporates results from predictive models in a decision tool to allow formulation and comparison of alternatives.
沿海的居民通常要承受许多风险，包括风暴潮带来的生命和财产损失。未来，这种风险有可能与日俱增。兰德公司协助美国路易斯安那州海岸保护与修复管理局制定了一套科学、客观的分析方法，将预测模型得出的结果输入决策工具，以制定和比较各种备选方案。
Feb 21, 2014
Two key analytic tools can be used to evaluate how coastal protection and restoration decisions made now will play out over time, even given an uncertain future.
Feb 19, 2014
Report describes RAND contributions to Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan for policymakers in other coastal regions. It highlights the value of a solid technical foundation to support decisionmaking on strategies to protect and restore coastal regions.
Nov 15, 2013
The recovery from Sandy shows once again that how well communities bounce back from disasters depends not just on how they react after a crisis, but on how resilient they have made themselves beforehand. Building community resilience should be part and parcel of disaster preparedness.
Nov 12, 2013
Prior responses to other recent disasters offer important lessons. Improved preparedness and efficient coordination mechanisms can help ensure that, when time is of the essence, the United States provides the most effective response.
