Fatal tradeoff? Toward a better understanding of the costs of not evacuating from a hurricane in landfall counties

Population and Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 121-149

  Czajkowski, Jeffrey ^a,b   Kennedy, Emily ^a  

^a AUSTIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Fatality risk; Hurricane katrina mortality; Hurricanes; Natural disaster fatality modeling; Natural disasters; Natural hazards; Zero inflated count models

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HURRICANE; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; STORM DAMAGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79956186379     PISSN: 01990039     EISSN: 15737810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-009-0097-x     Document Type: Article

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