Tornado shelters and the housing market

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1119-1126

  Simmons, Kevin M ^a   Sutter, Daniel ^b  

^a AUSTIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitigation; Multiple regression; Natural disasters; Prices; Tornado shelters

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DISASTERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TORNADOES;

MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NATURAL DISASTER;

HOUSES;

HOUSING MARKET; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NATURAL DISASTER; PRICE DETERMINATION; TORNADO;

EID: 36549063558     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190701618299     Document Type: Article

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