Earthquake insurance and disaster assistance

By Tom LaTourrette

In an effort to increase the availability and affordability of insurance for catastrophic events, the Catastrophe Obligation Guarantee Act was introduced in Congress in 2009. One of the arguments i...

Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel

By James T. Bartis

New forces at work in mining

By D. J. Peterson

Modeling Terrorism Risk to the Air Transportation System

By Henry H. Willis, Tom LaTourrette, Bradley Wilson, Shawn McKay, Carter C. Price, Andrew R. Morral, Blake W. Mobley, David S. Ortiz

RAND evaluated a terrorism risk modeling tool developed by the Transportation Security Administration and Boeing to help guide program planning for aviation security. This tool, the Risk Management...

Distribution of losses from large terrorist attacks under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act

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Protecting Emergency Responders

By Brian A Jackson

Protecting Emergency Responders

By Henry H. Willis

Assessing Gas and Oil Resources in the Intermountain West Review of Methods and Framework for a New Approach

By Tom Latourette

The impact on federal spending of allowing the terrorism risk insurance act to expire Tom LaTourrette Noreen Clancy

By Tom LaTourrette

Congress enacted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in 2002, in response to terrorism insurance becoming unavailable or, when offered, extremely costly in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The law...

Emergency Response to Terrorist Attacks

By Rand Corporation.