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The Texas Power Grid Failure Is a Climate Change Cautionary Tale
The winter storm that ravaged Texas this month did not come as a surprise to scientists. “The future is not going to be like the past,” CRGC director Melissa Finucane, who also serves as a co-director of the RAND Climate Resilience Center, told TIME Magazine. “If we could just plan a little better, we could anticipate some of these problems.”
Building Community Resilience to Large Oil Spills
What could communities, government officials, nongovernment organizations, businesses, and scientists do to build community resilience to large oil spills? Answering that question was the goal of CRGC researchers as they researched and wrote their final report, Building Community Resilience to Large Oil Spills: Findings and Recommendations from a Synthesis of Research on the Mental Health, Economic, and Community Distress Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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RGSPI Update: Building Community Resilience
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The latest issue of this quarterly newsletter highlights a new study on the mental health, economic, and community distress associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The newsletter features a Q&A with RAND's Melissa Finucane..
Studies Examine Public Health Issues Following Deepwater Horizon | GoMRI
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Large environmental disasters can have a wide range of impacts on communities in affected areas, yet we have a limited understanding about how disasters affect public health.
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Nearly a decade of BP-funded research has uncovered a laundry list of potential health effects resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including possible links between obesity and dispersants usedProjects
Health, Social, and Community Economic Impacts of the Oil Spill
We are surveying individuals in Gulf of Mexico communities to assess the health, social, and economic impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on households. Read More »
Economic Impact of the Oil Spill on Industry
We are assessing the economic impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the fishing, fish/seafood processing, and tourism industries. Read More »
Community Action Planning
We are developing and implementing a community action planning process to increase awareness and use of evidence-based resilience strategies. Read More »
Targeted Information for Disaster-Affected Communities
We are developing a web portal, tailored to the needs of communities in the Gulf region, to deliver targeted information about oil spills. Read More »
Mentor the Next Generation
We are training undergraduate and graduate students in disaster resilience research and outreach methods. Read More »
Real-Time Program Self-Evaluation
We are evaluating the Consortium’s performance as we do our work, to demonstrate success and to improve our research, outreach, and education activities. Read More »