This report will be of interest to those evaluating Superfund's liability-based approach to cleaning up the thousands of abandoned or inactive sites across the U.S. that are contaminated with hazardous substances.

Private Sector Cleanup Expenditures and Transactions Costs at 18 Superfund Sites

Business & Money

Dixon, Lloyd

Economics

Rand Publishing

Arts organizations across the country are actively expanding their efforts to increase public participation in their programs. This report presents the findings of a Rand study sponsored by the WallaceReader's Digest Funds that looks at the process by which individuals become involved in the arts and attempts to identify ways in which arts institutions can most effectively influence this process. The report presents a behavioral model that identifies the main factors influencing individual decisions about the arts, based on site visits to institutions that have been particularly successful in attracting participants to their programs and indepth interviews with the directors of more than 100 institutions that have received grants from the WallaceReader's Digest Funds and the Knight Foundation to encourage greater involvement in the arts. The model and a set of guidelines to help institutions approach the task of participation building constitute a framework that can assist in devising participationbuilding approaches that fit with an institution's overall purpose and mission, its available resources, and the community environment in which it operatesin other words, a framework that will enable arts institutions to take an integrative approach to building participation in the arts.

A New Framework for Building Participation in the Arts

Gill associate professor of vo, Brian

Arts & Photography

RAND Corporation

California's Zero Emission Vechile program requires automakers to offer vehicles for slae that produce no emisssions starting in 2003. This study examines the costs and emission benefits of technologies that may be used to meet program requirements, including batterypowered electric vehilces, direct hydrogen fuelcell vehicles, and gasoline hybird electric vechiles. The authors conclude California should eliminate the program, tighten emission standards on lightduty vehicles, and focus on setting emission performance performance standards.

Driving Emissions to Zero: Are the Benefits of California's Emission Vechile Program Worth the Cost?

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Examines benefits going to those who were killed or seriously injured in the 9/11 attacks and benefits to individuals and businesses in New York City that suffered losses form the attack on the World Trade Center.

Compensation for Losses from the 9/11 Attacks

History

Americas

Examines and quantifies the possible effects of extended emission-system warranties on independent repair shop revenues and other impacts from extended warranties.

The Impact of Extended Vehicle Emission Warranties on California's Independent Repair Shops (Technical Report)

The Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan mitigates development effects on 146 plant and animal species by establishing a 500,000 acre conservation reserve. This monograph examines land acquisition strategies and costs, revenue adequacy and potential new funding sources, the plan's habitat conservation goals, and whether the plan has streamlined transportation and development permitting processes.

Balancing Environment and Development: Costs, Revenues, and Benefits of the Western Riverside County Multiple Species, Habitat Conservation Plan

This report reviews the court proceedings that led to the uncovering of abusive diagnostic practices in silica litigation, then identifies several areas in which changes in litigation practices and procedures could increase the likelihood that similar diagnosing practices would be uncovered in the future or prevented from occurring in the first place.

The Abuse of Medical Diagnostic Practices in Mass Litigation: The Case of Silica

Politics & Social Sciences

Anderson, James M.

Hogan, Thor

Carroll, Stephen J.

Sloss, Elizabeth M.

Social Sciences

This report describes the creation, organization, governance, and operation of asbestos personal-injury trusts and compiles publicly available information on the assets, outlays, claim-approval criteria, and governing boards of the 26 largest trusts. The authors find that important data are incomplete, often shallow, and inconsistent.

Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts: An Overview of Trust Structure and Activity with Detailed Reports on the Largest Trusts

McGovern, Geoffrey

Coombe, Amy

Business

Asbestos bankruptcy trusts play an important role in compensating asbestos injuries. This monograph examines how state tort laws address compensation paid by trusts and the evidence submitted in trust claim forms, how court proceedings take this evidence and compensation into account, and how the establishment of the trusts potentially affects compensation.

Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts and Tort Compensation

This report explores the extent to which hedge funds create or contribute to systemic risk, the role they played in the financial crisis, and whether and how the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 addresses the potential systemic risks posed by hedge funds.

Hedge Funds and Systemic Risk (Rand Corporation Monograph)

Clancy, Noreen

Kumar, Krishna B.

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