A quantitative method for estimating probable public costs of hurricanes

Environmental Management

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 359-372

  Boswell, Michael R ^a   Deyle, Robert E ^a   Smith, Richard A ^a   Baker, E Jay ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster recovery; Disaster response; Florida; Hurricane; Local government; Public costs; Stafford Act

Indexed keywords

PROBABLE PUBLIC COSTS;

COST ACCOUNTING; DISASTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

HURRICANES;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL DISASTER;

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; LAW; PLANNING; POLICY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033120911     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002679900192     Document Type: Article

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