Flannery Dolan

Aug 15, 2024 | rand.org | Abbie Tingstad |Flannery Dolan |Bryan Rooney |David A. Shlapak

Topics Availability: Web-Only Year: 2024 Pages: 16DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/PEA470-1 Document Number: PE-A470-1 Chicago Manual of Style Tingstad, Abbie, Flannery Dolan, Bryan Rooney, David A. Shlapak, Stephen M. Worman, and Emily Yoder, Wargaming Climate Change: A Structure for Incorporating Physical and Social Effects into Strategic Military Planning. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2024. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA470-1.html.

Jul 24, 2024 | rand.org | Flannery Dolan |Abbie Tingstad |Bryan Rooney |Stephen M. Worman

Key Findings The magnitude of hazards resulting from climate change and their associated impacts are deeply uncertain. Scenario-based planning and analytic gaming are therefore useful methods for exploring the flexibility in assumptions required when considering climate change and its impacts. A scenario-based climate hazard card game as a stand-alone event provides an opportunity for communication and learning about climate change and its existing and potential future impacts.

May 28, 2024 | rand.org | Flannery Dolan |Hye Su Min

In order to protect vulnerable renters from unsafe heat, Los Angeles County's Board of Supervisors is currently considering a policy that would establish a temperature threshold for rental units. A year ago, the Public Health office suggested having two temperature limits (PDF), each based on the type of cooling: 82 degrees for rentals with air conditioning; 86 degrees for units with evaporative cooling or no cooling system at all.

Nov 15, 2023 | rand.org | Flannery Dolan |Robert Lempert

Whenever Congress considers a new law or spending package, analysts calculate its likely impact on the federal budget. When it comes to climate change legislation, those numbers don't capture the whole picture. Potential savings and other benefits get significantly underestimated. The analysts at the Congressional Budget Office typically consider a policy's effects over 10 years. That horizon extends to 30 years for long-term budgetary outlooks.

Nov 8, 2023 | barrons.com | Flannery Dolan |Robert Lempert

About the authors: Flannery C. Dolan is an environmental engineer and hydrologist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. Robert J. Lempert is director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition at RAND.