Hurricane risk perceptions among Florida's single family homeowners

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 73, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 120-135

  Peacock, Walter Gillis ^a,b   Brody, Samuel David ^a   Highfield, Wes ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Building codes; Hurricane risk; Land use planning; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HAZARDS; HEALTH; LAND USE; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

FAMILY HOMEOWNERS; HURRICANE RISK; LAND USE PLANNING;

RISK PERCEPTION;

BUILDING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOMEOWNER; HURRICANE; NATURAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24344432098     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2004.11.004     Document Type: Article

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