Flood insurance and floodplain management: The us experience

Environmental Hazards

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 111-122

  Burby, Raymond J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 84993085332     PISSN: 17477891     EISSN: 18780059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/ehaz.2001.0310     Document Type: Article

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