Have state comprehensive planning mandates reduced insured losses from natural disasters?

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 67-81

  Burby, Raymond J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Community planning; Damage prevention; Disasters; Insurance; Public policy; State laws; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY PLANNING; DAMAGE PREVENTION; NATURAL DISASTERS; STATE LAWS;

BUILDINGS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INSURANCE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PUBLIC POLICY; STANDARDIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

DISASTERS;

NATURAL DISASTER; URBAN PLANNING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20344378476     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2005)6:2(67)     Document Type: Article

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