Wake-up call in east Tennessee? Correlating flood losses to National flood insurance program enrollment (1978-2006)

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-322

  Luffman, Ingrid E ^a  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; Flood; NFIP; Tennessee

Indexed keywords

FLOOD DAMAGE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; INSURANCE SYSTEM; SOCIAL IMPACT;

TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

COLUMBA;

EID: 78349240761     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: 15496929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sgo.2010.0000     Document Type: Article

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