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

abstract

• We analyze household flood insurance purchases in Florida from 1999 to 2005, and the extent to which household insurance purchases correspond with flood mitigation activities by local governments involved in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Community Rating System (CRS). Regression results indicate that household flood insurance purchases correlate strongly with local government mitigation activities, adjusting for hazard experience, hazard proximity, and community demography. Policy implications of this observed relationship are discussed, assuming four temporal order and floodplain development scenarios, with particular attention to the congruence of outcomes relative to policy objectives. 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

authors

• Brody, Samuel
• Highfield, Wesley

published proceedings

• ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

author list (cited authors)

• Zahran, S., Weiler, S., Brody, S. D., Lindell, M. K., & Highfield, W. E.

citation count

• 42

complete list of authors

• Zahran, Sammy||Weiler, Stephan||Brody, Samuel D||Lindell, Michael K||Highfield, Wesley E

publication date

• August 2009

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Ecological Economics  Journal

keywords

• Community Rating System
• Flood Mitigation
• Flood Risk
• Florida
• Moral Hazard
• National Flood Insurance Program

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.04.021

start page

• 2627

end page

• 2636

volume

• 68

issue

• 10

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.ecolecon.2009.04.021