Identifying the impact of the built environment on flood damage in Texas

Disasters

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-18

  Brody, Samuel D ^a   Zahran, Sammy ^b   Highfield, Wesley E ^a   Grover, Himanshu ^a   Vedlitz, Arnold ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Flood damage; Texas; Wet lands

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; NATURAL HAZARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NATURAL DISASTERS; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS; WETLANDS;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38649085982     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2007.01024.x     Document Type: Article

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