Effects of flood hazards on property values: Evidence before and after hurricane Floyd

Land Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 490-500

  Bin, Okmyung ^a   Polasky, Stephen ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; HOUSING MARKET; HURRICANE; MARKET CONDITIONS; NATURAL HAZARD; PROPERTY MARKET;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; PITT COUNTY; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 9944229865     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3655805     Document Type: Article

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