Modeling national flood insurance policy holding at the county scale in Florida, 1999-2005

Ecological Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2627-2636

  Zahran, Sammy ^a   Weiler, Stephan ^a   Brody, Samuel D ^b   Lindell, Michael K ^b   Highfield, Wesley E ^b  

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

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community rating system; Flood mitigation; Flood risk; Florida; Moral hazard; National Flood Insurance Program

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEDERAL SYSTEM; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; INSURANCE SYSTEM; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649223753     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.04.021     Document Type: Article

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