Climate Change: Water as a Bridge to Mitigation and Adaptation June 11, 2015
Beginning in the late 1980s, climate change issues were divided into two distinct policy categories: mitigation (carbon…
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A New Frontier in Texas: Managing and Regulating Brackish Groundwater
Using Texas as a case study, this paper addresses which policies are desirable to best manage and regulate the supply of…
June 10, 2015 
Revamping Energy Policy in Saudi Arabia: A View to the Future
The accession of a new king in Saudi Arabia and the kingdom’s intervention in Yemen have overshadowed important moves to…
June 9, 2015 Finding the Balance: Border Security in the 21st Century
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June 8, 2015
Featured Speaker
The Honorable Jeh Johnson
Secretary of Homeland Security, United States of America
Welcome and Introduction
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One Bin or Not One Bin: Is That the Question?
In March 2013, Houston was awarded one of five inaugural Mayor’s Challenge Prizes from Bloomberg Philanthropies for its…
June 5, 2015 
Must Carry, Must Offer in Mexico
With two corporate groups dominating Mexico's television sector, the country’s 2014 telecommunications reform established…
June 5, 2015 International Space Medicine Summit 2015 June 4, 2015
On June 4-7, 2015, the Space Policy Program at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and Baylor College of…
Tele-health in Schools: Increasing Access to Care in Urban Areas
Tele-health in schools may be the answer to limited resources and a need to increase health care access for children.
June 4, 2015 
The Politics of Identity Post-Arab Spring
This report reviews the key concepts and themes that emerged from the conference “Divided Societies, Volatile States: The…
June 2, 2015 
HRMS Issue Brief #12: Change in Insurance Status of Adult Texans by Demographic Group as of March 2015
In Texas, Hispanics and women showed the largest reductions in rates of uninsured since enrollment began under the…
June 2, 2015