Climate Risks and Resilience
Communities and decisionmakers across the globe are grappling with how to measure climate risks as they seek to respond to the impacts of climate change, from coastal flooding due to sea-level rise to heat waves and wildfires. Experts at Resources for the Future (RFF) are quantifying the economic and social impacts of climate change and evaluating strategies to enhance resilience, ensuring that communities and decisionmakers are equipped with the tools they need to respond.
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Adaptation and Resilience
Building resilience and adapting to a changing world
Coastal Resilience
Assessing the design and application of policies to build resilience
Ecosystem Services
Developing environmental management solutions
Hurricanes and Flooding
Studying the impacts of hurricanes and flooding on people and the environment
Insurance and Disaster Aid
Examining ways to make insurance options more affordable
Natural Infrastructure
Examining costs and benefits to inform investment and implementation
Water Resources
Informing effective water management policies, from water rights to quality
Wildfires
Analyzing how communities, land managers, and policymakers can mitigate wildfire disasters
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On the Issues — Mar 24, 2023
On the Issues: Hydrogen Tax Credits, IPCC Report, and More
A biweekly newsletter connecting global current events, pressing climate and energy policy news, and economics research from RFF scholars. This week: hydrogen tax credits, IPCC report, and more
Common Resources — Mar 16, 2023
How Do Wildfires Affect Local Economies?
Wildfires are becoming more common, yet few studies explore the effects of fires on local economies. New research from RFF scholars Margaret Walls and Matthew Wibbenmeyer investigates how wildfires affect employment growth rates in nearby communities.
Explainer — Mar 14, 2023
Urban Heat Islands 101
This explainer details how heat islands increase temperatures, how different communities are impacted by high urban temperatures, and what can be done to mitigate their negative impacts.
On the Issues — Mar 10, 2023
On the Issues: Reducing Harmful Ozone, Carbon Dioxide Removal, and More
A biweekly newsletter connecting global current events, pressing climate and energy policy news, and economics research from RFF scholars. This week: reducing harmful ozone, carbon dioxide removal, and more
Explainer — Mar 14, 2023
Urban Heat Islands 101
This explainer details how heat islands increase temperatures, how different communities are impacted by high urban temperatures, and what can be done to mitigate their negative impacts.
Journal Article — Mar 10, 2023
How Social and Ecological Characteristics Shape Transaction Costs in Polycentric Wildfire Governance: Insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA
This journal article utilizing exponential random graph modeling to analyze the social and ecological drivers of polycentric wildfire governance in the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Protected Area-Centered Ecosystem.
Working Paper — Mar 8, 2023
How Local are the Local Economic Impacts of Wildfires?
This working paper examines the local economic impacts of wildfires in the western United States, using two empirical approaches that investigate just how local these impacts are.
Journal Article — Feb 16, 2023
Unpriced Climate Risk and the Potential Consequences of Overvaluation in US Housing Markets
Unpriced Climate Risk and the Potential Consequences of Overvaluation in US Housing Markets
RFF Live — Nov 30, 2022
Sparking Solutions: Wildfire Risk and Insurance
The third RFF Live event in the "Sparking Solutions" event series examining the role of insurance in mitigating the risks of wildfire.
RFF Live — Oct 12, 2022
Sparking Solutions: Reducing Risk at the Wildland-Urban Interface
On Wednesday, October 12, Resources for the Future (RFF) hosted the second RFF Live event in the “Sparking Solutions” webinar series, where we discussed the benefits and challenges of addressing the WUI problem.
RFF Live — Sep 7, 2022
Sparking Solutions: The Fuels Management Challenge and Opportunity
Examining the role of fuels management in mitigating the impacts and intensity of wildfires
RFF Live — Sep 1, 2022
An Updated Social Cost of Carbon: Calculating the Cost of Climate Change
A multi-institutional research team unveils its updated estimate of the social cost of carbon
On the Issues — Mar 24, 2023
On the Issues: Hydrogen Tax Credits, IPCC Report, and More
A biweekly newsletter connecting global current events, pressing climate and energy policy news, and economics research from RFF scholars. This week: hydrogen tax credits, IPCC report, and more
Common Resources — Mar 16, 2023
How Do Wildfires Affect Local Economies?
Wildfires are becoming more common, yet few studies explore the effects of fires on local economies. New research from RFF scholars Margaret Walls and Matthew Wibbenmeyer investigates how wildfires affect employment growth rates in nearby communities.
On the Issues — Mar 10, 2023
On the Issues: Reducing Harmful Ozone, Carbon Dioxide Removal, and More
A biweekly newsletter connecting global current events, pressing climate and energy policy news, and economics research from RFF scholars. This week: reducing harmful ozone, carbon dioxide removal, and more
Resources Radio — Mar 7, 2023
An Environmental and Economic History of the Bering Strait, with Bathsheba Demuth
Bathsheba Demuth discusses the Bering Strait and the region’s ecological, sociopolitical, and economic history over the past two centuries.
Press Release — Feb 27, 2023
EPA Awards $1.35 Million Grant to Multi-Institutional Team for Septic Adaptation Research
Resources for the Future scholars Margaret Walls and Yanjun (Penny) Liao are part of a team that will spend the next two years researching the compound issues of climate change and septic failure in coastal Maryland.
Media Highlight — Feb 17, 2023
Axios: "1 Big Thing: The Climate Change Real Estate Bubble"
The Axios Generate newsletter features a new study coauthored by Fellow Penny Liao in its top slot.
Media Highlight — Feb 16, 2023
Bloomberg: "US Housing Market is Overvalued by Billions Due to Ignored Flood Risk"
This story details a new article in the journal Nature Climate Change coauthored by RFF Fellow Penny Liao.
Media Highlight — Feb 16, 2023
Washington Post: "Where US House Prices May Be Most Overvalued as Climate Change Worsens"
This article gives a rundown of a new article coauthored by Fellow Penny Liao in the journal Nature Climate Change.
